A simple technique for co-registration of terrestrial LiDAR observations for forestry applications

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-247

  Hilker, Thomas ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Culvenor, Darius S ^b   Newnham, Glenn ^b   Wulder, Michael A ^c   Bater, Christopher W ^c   Siggins, Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; COREGISTRATION; DATA SETS; FOREST CANOPIES; FORESTED ENVIRONMENT; FORESTRY APPLICATIONS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; LIDAR OBSERVATION; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES; REFERENCE TARGET; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; TERRAIN ELEVATION; TERRAIN HEIGHT; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; UNDERSTOREY;

AGRICULTURE; LANDFORMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; SEEBECK EFFECT;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; LIDAR; TERRAIN; UNDERSTORY;

EID: 80054775368     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.565815     Document Type: Article

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