Development of laser waveform digitization for airborne LIDAR topographic mapping instrumentation

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1154-1157

  Gutierrez, Roberto ^a   Neuenschwander, Amy ^b   Crawford, Melba M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIDAR; LASER WAVEFORM DIGITIZATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVE RADIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

BACKSCATTERING; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER PULSES; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR;

WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745713499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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