Multiview range-image registration for forested scenes using explicitly-matched tie points estimated from natural surfaces

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 68-83

  Henning, Jason G ^a   Radtke, Philip J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Canopy structure; Digital terrain model; Ground based lidar; Point cloud; Stem map; Stem profile; Terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

CANOPY STRUCTURES; POINT CLOUDS; STEM MAPS; STEM PROFILES; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIDAR; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; STAND STRUCTURE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 37849032677     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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