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Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is now the most widely used method for detailed topographic and vegetation studies. The aim of this work is to show how the full-waveform shapes returned from single or multiple targets can carry information relating to low-vegetation cover and ground roughness of dunes. This work focuses on marram grass, widely involved in the development of mobile dunes. Low-growing plants often exhibit identical pigmentary composition and can only be distinguished by the height of their foliage, which modifies the shape of the LiDAR waveform around the main returns at the top of the foliage. We show that ray tracing of full LiDAR waveforms on the regular grid of pixels of hyperspectral images, acquired synchronously, can resolve the confusion between low-vegetation gradients and bare sand by analyzing the waveform damping induced by cumulating microdiffusion on foliage height, but also with glint effects on the surface roughness of compact materials. Analysis of successive shorelines of wet to dry sand, sand to pioneer couch grass, and couch grass to consolidating marram grass can thereby be conducted routinely.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10050669","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,25]],"date-time":"2018-04-25T11:15:39Z","timestamp":1524654939000},"page":"669","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Full-Waveform LiDAR Pixel Analysis for Low-Growing Vegetation Mapping of Coastal Foredunes in Western France"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7465-9041","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Patrick","family":"Launeau","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire de Plan\u00e9tologie et G\u00e9odynamique de Nantes, UMR CNRS 6112, Universit\u00e9 de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssini\u00e8re, 44322 Nantes, France"}]},{"given":"Manuel","family":"Giraud","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire de Plan\u00e9tologie et G\u00e9odynamique de Nantes, UMR CNRS 6112, Universit\u00e9 de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssini\u00e8re, 44322 Nantes, France"}]},{"given":"Antoine","family":"Ba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire de Plan\u00e9tologie et G\u00e9odynamique de Nantes, UMR CNRS 6112, Universit\u00e9 de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssini\u00e8re, 44322 Nantes, France"}]},{"given":"Sa\u00efd","family":"Moussaoui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire des Sciences du Num\u00e9rique de Nantes, UMR CNRS 6004, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, 1 rue de la No\u00eb, 44321 Nantes, France"}]},{"given":"Marc","family":"Robin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LETG-G\u00e9olittomer, UMR CNRS 6554, Universit\u00e9 de Nantes, Campus Tertre, 44312 Nantes, France"}]},{"given":"Fran\u00e7oise","family":"Debaine","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LETG-G\u00e9olittomer, UMR CNRS 6554, Universit\u00e9 de Nantes, Campus Tertre, 44312 Nantes, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8980-1415","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dimitri","family":"Lague","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"G\u00e9osciences Rennes, UMR CNRS 6118, Universit\u00e9 de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes, France"}]},{"given":"Erwan","family":"Le Menn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire de Plan\u00e9tologie et G\u00e9odynamique de Nantes, UMR CNRS 6112, Universit\u00e9 de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssini\u00e8re, 44322 Nantes, France"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"216","DOI":"10.1016\/j.biocon.2016.06.015","article-title":"Gaps in ecological research on the world\u2019s largest internationally coordinated network of protected areas: A review of Natura 2000","volume":"200","author":"Orlikowska","year":"2016","journal-title":"Biol. 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