BBAuthors: Rollan, T.A.M.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2016)
Cabadbaran City is the capital of Agusan del Norte which is located at the north eastern portion of Mindanao, Philippines. Currently, the city government and agriculture office are implementing programs focusing on improving coconut and vegetable productivity, controlling banana disease and infestation, and enhancing abaca production industry. In this study, only discrete LiDAR datasets were utilized. Corresponding orthophotos were used only for training and validation. Land cover classification was done using two workflows using Support Vector Machines (SVM) as the classifier. In the first workflow, land cover classes were classified using rasterized point cloud metrics such as minimum, maximum, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, quartile average, mode and median. In the secon...