Automatic environmental quality assessment for mixed-land zones using lidar and intelligent techniques

► LiDAR can provide excellent information to improve thematic maps in especially interesting areas. ► Intelligent techniques are a key factor to provide fast and accurate results when lidar is applied to the study of the natural environment. ► Our experimentation on real data from a riparian area in the south of Spain shows decision trees (C4.5) provide the best results with the highest level of clarity for the final model.