Association of elevation error with surface type, vegetation class and data origin in discrete-returns airborne LiDAR

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 467-483

  Coveney, Seamus ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

elevation error; Land Cover; LiDAR

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; CANOPY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GIS; LAND COVER; LIDAR; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

IRELAND;

EID: 84875958359     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2012.695794     Document Type: Article

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