Comparing airborne laser scanning-imagery fusion methods based on geometric accuracy in forested areas

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1942-1954

  Valbuena, Rubén ^a   Mauro, Francisco ^a   Arjonilla, Francisco José ^b   Manzanera, José Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Stereocarto SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Back projected ALS; Earth's curvature; Leaning; Refraction; True orthophoto

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AIRBORNE LASERS; ANGLE-DEPENDENT; ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTIONS; BACK-PROJECTED ALS; EARTH'S CURVATURE; FORESTED AREA; FUSION METHODS; GEOMETRIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRIC ERRORS; HIGH-RESOLUTION DATASETS; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; KRIGING MODEL; LEANING; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; ORTHOPHOTOS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRUE ORTHORECTIFICATION; TRUE-ORTHOPHOTO;

ERRORS; LASER APPLICATIONS; PLANT EXTRACTS; REFRACTION; REMOTE SENSING; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

GEOMETRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURVATURE; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KRIGING; LASER METHOD; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NADIR; REFRACTION; STAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 79957610960     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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