Mini-UAV-borne LIDAR for fine-scale mapping

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 426-430

  Lin, Yi ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Jaakkola, Anttoni ^a  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fine scale; light detection and ranging (LIDAR); mapping; mini unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FINE SCALE; LASER SCANNING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SYSTEMS; MEASURED DATA; MINI-UAV; MINI-UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV); PULSE INTENSITY; RAPID ADVANCEMENT; ROAD EXTRACTION; TREE HEIGHT ESTIMATION;

CLOUDS; DATA HANDLING; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 79955521246     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2079913     Document Type: Article

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