Performance of laser penetration through forest vegetation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6550, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chevalier, Tomas ^a   Steinvall, Ove ^a   Larsson, Hakan ^a  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

3 D laser radar; Performance modeling; Vegetation penetration

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

LASER SCANNER; LASER SENSORS; VEGETATION PENETRATION;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 35948982625     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.717722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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