ALTM Orion: Bridging conventional lidar and full waveform digitizer technology

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 38, Issue , 2010, Pages 606-611

  Ussyshkin, Valerie ^a   Theriault, Livia ^a  

^a Optech Incorporated   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data; Digitisation; Forestry; Fusion; Lidar; Measurement; Modelling; Urban

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA FUSION; DATA HANDLING; FORESTRY; FUSION REACTIONS; MAPPING; MEASUREMENTS; MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TIMBER;

COMMERCIAL LIDARS; DATA; DIGITISATION; FOREST RESEARCH; MULTIPLE RETURNS; PULSE SEPARATIONS; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; URBAN;

QUALITY CONTROL;

DATA; FORESTRY; MEASUREMENT; MODELS;

EID: 80051981342     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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