Development of a UAV-LiDAR system with application to forest inventory

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1519-1543

  Wallace, Luke ^a   Lucieer, Arko ^a   Watson, Christopher ^a   Turner, Darren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forestry; Kalman filter; LiDAR; MEMS IMU; Sensor integration; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

3D POINT CLOUD; CURRENT LIMITATION; DATA SETS; DENSITY DATA; DETERMINATION ALGORITHM; FOREST INVENTORY; FORESTRY INDUSTRY; GPS RECEIVERS; GROUND CONTROL; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH-DEFINITION VIDEOS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; POINT CLOUD; RMS ERRORS; SENSOR INTEGRATION; SPATIAL ACCURACY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TREE HEIGHT; TREE LOCATION; UAV SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL TELEVISION; FORESTRY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KALMAN FILTERS; OPTICAL RADAR; ROCK MECHANICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIR CRAFT; COMPUTER PROGRAMING; CROWNS; FILTERS; FORESTRY; MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; RADAR; ROCK; TELEVISION;

EID: 84864977579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4061519     Document Type: Article

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