A multi-resolution approach for filtering LiDAR altimetry data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-22

  Silvan Cardenas J L ^a,b   Wang, L ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centro de Investigacion en Geografia y Geomatica Ing Jorge L Tamayo AC   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Digital surface model; Digital terrain model; Laser scanning; Multiscale Hermite transform; Scale space representation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MORPHOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DIGITAL SURFACE MODEL; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; LASER SCANNING; MULTISCALE HERMITE TRANSFORM; SCALE-SPACE REPRESENTATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ALTIMETRY; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; DATA SET; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FILTRATION; LIDAR; RESOLUTION; TERRAIN;

EID: 33749125021     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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