Study of surface brightness from backscattered laser intensity: Calibration of laser data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 255-259

  Kaasalainen, Sanna ^a   Ahokas, Eero ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Suomalainen, Juha ^a  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Backscattering; Bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF); Hotspot; Laboratory measurement; Laser scanning; Reflectance

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; REFLECTION; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS (BRDF); HOTSPOT; LABORATORY MEASUTREMENT; LASER SCANNING;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 27744544598     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.850534     Document Type: Article

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