Visualizing distributions from multi-return lidar data to understand forest structure

Cartographic Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-47

  Kao, David L ^a   Kramer, Marc G ^b   Love, Alison L ^d   Dungan, Jennifer L ^b   Pang, Alex T ^c  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Geovisualization; Interactive visualization; Lidar; Mode finding; Probability density functions

Indexed keywords

FOREST DYNAMICS; LIDAR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 22944441927     PISSN: 00087041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000870405X57257     Document Type: Article

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