Terrestrial laser scanner resolution: Numerical simulations and experiments on spatial sampling optimization

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 167-184

  Pesci, Arianna ^a   Teza, Giordano ^b   Bonali, Elena ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Instruments; LiDAR; Resolution; Spatial sampling; Terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; ARTIFICIAL TARGETS; BEAM DIVERGENCE; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FIRST ORDER; ILRIS-3D; NUMERICAL SIMULATION EXPERIMENT; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SURFACE DETAILS; TECHNICAL DATA; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

EXPERIMENTS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING; SURVEYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 79955708072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3010167     Document Type: Article

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