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However, the sensor-related and environmental parameters may introduce noise. In this study, we developed a local median filtering (LMF) method to point-by-point correct the LRI information. For each point, we deduced the reference variation range for its LRI. Then, we replaced the outliers of LRI with their local median values. To evaluate the LMF method, we assessed the discrepancy of LRI information from the same and diverse land cover types. Moreover, we used the corrected LRI to distinguish points from grass, road, and bare land, which were classified as ground type in ALS data. The results show that using the LMF method could increase the similarity of pointwise LRI from the same land cover type and the discrepancy of those from different kinds of targets. Using the LMF-corrected LRI could improve the overall classification accuracy of three land cover types by about 3% (all over 81%, \u03ba \u2265 0.73, p &lt; 0.05), compared to those using the original and range-normalized LRI. The sensor-related metrics brought more noise to the original LRI information than the environmental factors. Using the LMF method could effectively correct LRI information from historical ALS datasets.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12101681","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,25]],"date-time":"2020-05-25T11:42:02Z","timestamp":1590406922000},"page":"1681","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["The Local Median Filtering Method for Correcting the Laser Return Intensity Information from Discrete Airborne Laser Scanning Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8577-507X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bingxiao","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing 210023, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guang","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing 210023, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Weimin","family":"Ju","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing 210023, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"250","DOI":"10.1016\/j.agrformet.2014.08.018","article-title":"Fast and nondestructive method for leaf level chlorophyll estimation using hyperspectral LiDAR","volume":"198\u2013199","author":"Nevalainen","year":"2014","journal-title":"Agric. 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