Integration of ground-penetrating radar and laser position sensors for real-time 3-D data fusion

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 130-137

  Grasmueck, Mark ^a   Viggiano, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; Data processing; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Imaging; Lasers; Position measurement; Terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; POSITION MEASUREMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

LASER POSITIONING; ON SITE IMAGING TOOLS; ROTARY LASER POSITIONING TECHNOLOGY; TERRAIN MAPPING;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846193188     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.882253     Document Type: Article

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