Improving automation in map updating based on national laser scanning, classification trees, object-based change detection and 3D object reconstruction

2007 Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event, URS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Matikainen, Leena ^a   Kaartinen, Harri ^a   Yu, Xiaowei ^a   Hyyppä, Hannu ^b   Rönnholm, Petri ^b  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONFORMAL MAPPING; DECISION TREES; LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

BUILDING EXTRACTION; HIGH-DENSITY CROSS STRIPS; MULTI-TEMPORAL LASER DATA; TREE EXTRACTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 34648831206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URS.2007.371857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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