SR-4000 and CamCube3.0 Time of Flight (ToF) cameras: Tests and comparison

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1069-1089

  Piatti, Dario ^a   Rinaudo, Fulvio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Measurement precision; PMD; Sunlight influence; SwissRanger; Time of Flight; Warm up

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT PRECISION; SUNLIGHT INFLUENCE; SWISSRANGER; TIME OF FLIGHT; WARM UP;

CAMERAS; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION;

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84861313247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs40401069     Document Type: Article

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