Obstruction detection comparison of small-footprint full-waveform and discrete return lidar

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7684, Issue , 2010, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; A-STAR ALGORITHM; ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; DATA TYPE; DENSE VEGETATION; DISCRETE-RETURN LIDAR; ELEVATION DATA; FINDING ALGORITHM; FULL-WAVEFORM DATA; GEOSPATIAL TOOLS; IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES; INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES; LASER RADARS; LIDAR DATA; LIDAR SURVEYS; NEIGHBORING POINT; SURFACE MODELS; TACTICAL PLANNING; TEST CASE; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; VEGETATION COVER; WAVE FORMS;

ALGORITHMS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SURVEYS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VEGETATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 77953796788     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.850274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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