Surface classification based on multi-temporal airborne lidar intensity data in high mountain environments a case study from hintereisferner, Austria

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 55, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages 105-126

  Fritzmann, Patrick ^a   Hone, Bernhard ^b   Vetter, Michael ^c   Sailer, Rudolf ^a   Stotter, Johann ^a   Bollmann, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

20 intensity correction; Airborne laser scanning; Alps; Back scattered signal intensity; Intensity normalization

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; BACKSCATTER; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA ACQUISITION; LIDAR; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; HINTEREISFERNER; TYROL;

EID: 80755126006     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2011/0055S2-0048     Document Type: Article

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