Mutual enhancement of weak laser pulses for point cloud enrichment based on full-waveform analysis

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3571-3579

  Yao, Wei ^a   Stilla, Uwe ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Laser scanning; Online; Pulse detection; Waveform stacking; Weak pulse signal

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LASER SCANNING; ONLINE; PULSE DETECTION; PULSE SIGNAL; WAVE FORMS;

DATA PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LASER PULSES; PULSED LASERS; SCANNING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

CLOUD; DATA SET; GEOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LASER; SIGNAL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; THRESHOLD; URBAN AREA; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956062165     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2047109     Document Type: Article

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