Digital airborne photogrammetry-a new tool for quantitative remote sensing?-a state-of-the-art review on radiometric aspects of digital photogrammetric images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 577-605

  Honkavaara, Eija ^a   Arbiol, Roman ^b   Markelin, Lauri ^a   Martinez, Lucas ^b   Cramer, Michael ^c   Bovet, Stéphane ^d   Chandelier, Laure ^e   Ilves, Risto ^f   Klonus, Sascha ^g   Marshal, Paul ^h   Schläpfer, Daniel ⁱ   Tabor, Mark ^h   Thom, Christian ^j   Veje, Nikolaj ^k  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Cartographic Institute of Catalonia ICC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d Swisstopo Land survey of Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^e Ecole Nationale des Sciences Geographiques   (France)

^f FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^h ORDNANCE SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ReSe Applications Schlaepfer   (Switzerland)

^j INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^k Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

Atmospheric correction; BRDF; Calibration; Orthophoto; Photogrammetry; Radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; BRDF; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL SENSORS; FUTURE PROSPECTS; IMAGE PRODUCTS; ORTHOPHOTO; QUANTITATIVE REMOTE SENSING; STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEWS;

RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYS;

PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

EID: 77951204455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1030577     Document Type: Article

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