Improved approach to LIDAR airport obstruction surveying using full-waveform data

Journal of Surveying Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 72-82

  Parrish, Christopher E ^a   Nowak, Robert D ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial surveys; Air transportation; Airports; Data analysis; Lasers; Mapping

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEYS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATIONS; GEO-REFERENCING; GEODETIC SURVEYS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION'S; POINT CLOUDS; PRACTICAL ISSUES; PROCESSING STEPS; PROJECT SITES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES; UNSOLVED PROBLEMS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM DATUM;

AIRPORTS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

AERIAL SURVEY; AIR TRANSPORTATION; DATA PROCESSING; DECONVOLUTION; GEODESY; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING; TESTING METHOD; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 65449134695     PISSN: 07339453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9453(2009)135:2(72)     Document Type: Article

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