Range determination for generating point clouds from airborne small footprint LiDAR waveforms

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 25935-25947

  Qin, Yuchu ^a,b   Vu, Tuong Thuy ^c   Ban, Yifang ^a   Niu, Zheng ^d  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^d INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D COORDINATES; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPLEX TERRAINS; CORRECTION METHOD; FIELD MEASUREMENT; POINT CLOUD; RANGE INFORMATION; SMALL-FOOTPRINT LIDARS; SMOOTH SURFACE; STANDARD DEVIATION; START POINT; TREE HEIGHT; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM DATA;

OPTICAL RADAR;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHINA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TELEMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; TREE;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84869015211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.025935     Document Type: Article

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