Hierarchical recovery of digital terrain models from single and multiple return lidar data

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 425-433

  Hu, Yong ^a   Tao, C Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

DIGITAL TERRAIN; IMAGE PYRAMID; LIDAR DATASET; POINT DENSITY;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; LIDAR;

EID: 33746335960     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.71.4.425     Document Type: Review

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