Development of a pit filling algorithm for LiDAR canopy height models

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1940-1949

  Ben Arie, Joshua R ^a   Hay, Geoffrey J ^a   Powers, Ryan P ^a   Castilla, Guillermo ^a   St Onge, Benoît ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canopy height model; Data pits; Interactive data language (IDL); LiDAR; Noise removal

Indexed keywords

CANOPY HEIGHT MODEL; DATA PITS; INTERACTIVE DATA LANGUAGE (IDL); LIDAR; NOISE REMOVAL;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; LINGUISTICS; METAL RECOVERY; OPTICAL RADAR;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; BIOMASS; CANOPY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEIGHT; LIDAR; NOISE; VISUALIZATION;

BIOMASS; DATA; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; HEIGHT; MODELS; NOISE; RADAR; REMOVAL;

EID: 68749105663     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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