Lidar waveform stacking techniques for faint ground return extraction

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Magruder, Lori A ^a   Neuenschwander, Amy L ^a   Marmillion, Scott P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Feature extraction; Foliage penetration; Full waveform; Lidar

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL RADAR; SURVEYS;

FOLIAGE PENETRATION; FULL-WAVEFORMS; INNOVATIVE ALGORITHMS; LASER MEASUREMENTS; SIGNAL EXTRACTION; SMALL FOOTPRINTS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 76849106101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3299657     Document Type: Article

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