State of the art of ground and aerial laser scanning technologies for High-resolution topography of the Earth Surface

European Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-78

  Pirotti, Francesco ^a   Guarnieri, Alberto ^a   Vettore, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airborne terrestrial laser scanning; Error distribution; High resolution topography; LiDAR; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; SCANNING;

CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS; ERROR DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LASER SCANNING; LASER SCANNING TECHNOLOGY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; STATE OF THE ART;

TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84875125998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22797254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20134605     Document Type: Article

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