Stepwise decomposition and relative radiometric normalization for small footprint LiDAR waveform

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 625-630

  Qin, Yu Chu ^a,c   Li, Bin ^b   Niu, Zheng ^a   Huang, Wen Jiang ^a   Wang, Chang Yao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model; LiDAR waveform; Relative radiometric correction; Stepwise decomposition

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION MODELS; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; FULL-WAVEFORMS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LIDAR WAVEFORM; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS; RELATIVE RADIOMETRIC CORRECTION; RELATIVE RADIOMETRIC NORMALIZATION; SMALL-FOOTPRINT LIDARS; STEPWISE DECOMPOSITION; WAVE FORMS;

DATA HANDLING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; RADIOMETRY;

OPTICAL RADAR;

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOMETER; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953693250     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-010-4120-y     Document Type: Article

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