The Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor: A medium-altitude, digitisation-only, airborne laser altimeter for mapping vegetation and topography

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 115-122

  Blair, J Bryan ^a   Rabine, David L ^b   Hofton, Michelle A ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser altimetry; Lidar; Topography; Vegetation height

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAPPING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL SENSORS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); VEGETATION;

LASER ALTIMETERS; LASER VEGETATION IMAGING SENSOR (LVIS); TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION CANOPY LIDAR (VCL);

REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; LASER METHOD; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VEGETATION MAPPING;

SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032783292     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-2716(99)00002-7     Document Type: Article

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