A comparison of visualization techniques for models created from airborne laser scanned data

Archaeological Prospection

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-48

  Bennett, Rebecca ^a   Welham, Kate ^a   Hill, Ross A ^a   Ford, Andrew ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanned; Archaeology; Lidar; Remote sensing; Terrain model; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858007655     PISSN: 10752196     EISSN: 10990763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arp.1414     Document Type: Article

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