Fusion of hyperspectral and LIDAR data for forest attributes estimation

In this paper a system for the fusion of hyperspectral and airborne laser scanning (ALS) data for the estimation of forest attributes is presented. In particular we focused on the classification of tree species, the estimation of stem diameter at breast height (DBH) and the estimation of the stem volume. The results showed that the fusion of hyperspectral and ALS data improve the estimation results respect to the use of only one data sourc