Threshold-free object and ground point separation in LIDAR data

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1089-1099

  Bartels, Marc ^a   Wei, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DSM; DTM; GIS; LIDAR; Remote sensing; Skewness Balancing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; CIVIL APPLICATIONS; CROSS VALIDATION; DSM; GROUND POINT; LAND SURVEYING; LIDAR DATA; LIDAR REMOTE SENSING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; PREDICTION MODEL; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; BUILDING MATERIALS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 77953137362     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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