Decomposition of laser altimeter waveforms

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 1989-1996

  Hofton, Michalle A ^a   Minster, Jean Bernard ^b   Blair, J Bryan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SENSORS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; LASER APPLICATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

INFLECTION POINTS; LASER ALTIMETER WAVEFORMS; LASER VEGETATION IMAGING SENSOR; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LEVENBURG-MARQUARDT METHOD;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034229067     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851780     Document Type: Article

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