Fundamental relationships inherent to lidar waveforms for classification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7323, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Neuenschwander, Amy ^a   Magruder, Lori ^a   Londo, Alexis ^b   Tweddale, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature extraction; Full waveform; LIDAR

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ENERGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMMERCIAL SECTOR; DIGITAL RECORDING; ELEVATION DATA; FALL TIME; FULL-WAVEFORM; FULL-WAVEFORM DATA; GROUND ENERGY; HARDWOOD FORESTS; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE FEATURE; LASER ALTIMETRY; LASER LINES; LASER WAVEFORMS; LIDAR; LIDAR DATA; MISSISSIPPI; PEAK AMPLITUDE; PINE FOREST; REFLECTED LASER; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RISETIMES; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE PARAMETER; TEMPORAL PROFILE; VEGETATION HEIGHT; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM DATA; WAVEFORM ENERGY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL RADAR; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

LASERS;

EID: 69949173272     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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