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However, few studies have explored the influence of canopy morphological characteristics on the classification of tree species. Therefore, based on UAV LiDAR and hyperspectral data, in this study, we designed various classification schemes for the main tree species in the study area, i.e., birch, Manchurian ash, larch, Ulmus, and mongolica, in order to explore the effects of different data sources, classifiers, and canopy morphological features on the classification of a single tree species. The results showed that the classification accuracy of a single tree species using multisource remote sensing data was greater than that based on a single data source. The classification results of three different classifiers were compared, and the random forest and support vector machine classifiers exhibited similar classification accuracies, with overall accuracies above 78%. The BP neural network classifier had the lowest classification accuracy of 75.8%. The classification accuracy of all three classifiers for tree species was slightly improved when UAV LiDAR-extracted canopy morphological features were added to the classifier, indicating that the addition of canopy morphological features has a certain relevance for the classification of single tree species.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15041000","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,13]],"date-time":"2023-02-13T01:48:56Z","timestamp":1676252936000},"page":"1000","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["UAV LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data Synergy for Tree Species Classification in the Maoershan Forest Farm Region"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Bin","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management\u2014Ministry of Education, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China"}]},{"given":"Jianyang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management\u2014Ministry of Education, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China"}]},{"given":"Jianing","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management\u2014Ministry of Education, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China"}]},{"given":"Mingze","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management\u2014Ministry of Education, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"113","article-title":"Application of Chinese High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data in Urban Forest Resources Monitoring","volume":"5","author":"Tan","year":"2019","journal-title":"Bull. 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