Localized registration of point clouds of botanic trees

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 631-635

  Bucksch, Alexander ^a,b   Khoshelham, Kourosh ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automation; forestry; image registration; laser scanning; least squares; parameter estimation; skeletonization

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL REGISTRATION; LASER SCANNING; LEAST SQUARE; LOCAL REGISTRATION; LOCAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POINT CLOUD; POINT-TO-LINE; RESIDUAL ERROR; SKELETONIZATION; TRANSFORMATION ESTIMATION;

AUTOMATION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FORESTRY;

AUTOMATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SCANNING;

EID: 84870519287     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2216251     Document Type: Article

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