Assessment of airborne scanning laser altimetry (lidar) in a deltaic wetland environment

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 718-728

  Töyrä, Jessika ^a   Pietroniro, Alain ^a   Hopkinson, Christopher ^b   Kalbfleisch, William ^a,c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Optech Incorporated   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

ALTIMETRY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEM); POINT DENSITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 2942611288     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m03-040     Document Type: Article

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