Gaussian decomposition and calibration of a novel small-footprint full-waveform digitising airborne laser scanner

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-112

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Ullrich, Andreas ^b   Ducic, Vesna ^a   Melzer, Thomas ^a   Studnicka, Nick ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b RIEGL LASER MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Calibration; Digitisation; Laser scanning; Lidar; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; EARTH (PLANET); LASER PULSES; OPTICAL RADAR; SCATTERING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNER; GAUSSIAN DECOMPOSITION; GAUSSIAN PULSES; LASER SCANNING; RETRIEVAL;

SCANNING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CALIBRATION; DIGITIZATION; LASER;

EID: 33645384654     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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