Dynamic range-based intensity normalization for airborne, discrete return lidar data of forest canopies

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-259

  Gatziolis, Demetrios ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY;

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DISCRETE-RETURN LIDAR; FOREST CANOPIES; FULLY AUTOMATED; INTENSITY MEASUREMENTS; LASER ENERGIES; SCALING DIFFERENCES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; DATA SET; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FOREST CANOPY; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960357253     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.77.3.251     Document Type: Article

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