Multiple return separation for a full-field ranger via Continuous Waveform modelling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7251, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Godbaz, John P ^a   Cree, Michael J ^a   Dorrington, Adrian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

AMCW; Lidar; Maximum Likelihood; Mixed Pixels; Range Imaging; Sparse Spike Train Deconvo lution

Indexed keywords

AMCW; LIDAR; MIXED PIXELS; RANGE IMAGING; SPARSE SPIKE TRAIN DECONVO-LUTION;

BLOCK CODES; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTICAL RADAR; RANGE FINDING;

PIXELS;

EID: 65949122332     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.805549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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