Airborne lidar: Advances in discrete return technology for 3D vegetation mapping

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 416-434

  Ussyshkin, Valerie ^a   Theriault, Livia ^a  

^a Optech Incorporated   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D vegetation mapping; Airborne; Discrete returns; Full waveform; Lidar

Indexed keywords

3-D MAPPING; AERIAL IMAGERY; AIR-BORNE SENSORS; AIRBORNE; AIRBORNE LIDAR; AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; AIRBORNE LIDAR SYSTEMS; COMMERCIAL SECTOR; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DISCRETE RETURNS; DISCRETE-RETURN LIDAR; FULL WAVEFORM; FULL-WAVEFORM DATA; FULL-WAVEFORMS; HIGH PRECISION; HIGH QUALITY; LEVEL OF DETAIL; LIDAR APPLICATIONS; LIDAR SENSORS; MAPPING APPLICATIONS; MODELING AND ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; MULTIPLE RETURNS; NEW APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; POINT CLOUD; SPATIAL DATA; VEGETATION MAPPING; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AGRICULTURE; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSORS; VEGETATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 80051959786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3030416     Document Type: Article

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