A Monte Carlo study of the seagrass-induced depth bias in bathymetric lidar

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7230-7243

  Wang, Chi Kuei ^a   Philpot, William ^b   Kim, Minsu ^c   Lei, Hou Meng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^c Optech International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MAPS; OPTICAL RADAR;

A-PLANE; BENDING ANGLE; CANOPY HEIGHTS; CANOPY STRUCTURE; COST-EFFICIENT; LAMBERTIAN; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR SIGNALS; LIDAR SURVEYS; MEDIAN OPERATORS; MONTE CARLO MODELING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO STUDY; NEARSHORES; SEAGRASSES; SHOOT DENSITY; STILL WATER; WATER CURRENTS; WATERBODIES; WAVE FORMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

WATER;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PHYSICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POACEAE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AIR; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; PHYSICS; PLANT LEAVES; POACEAE; WATER;

EID: 79953848745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007230     Document Type: Article

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