Reconstruction of 3D tree stem models from low-cost terrestrial laser scanner data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8731, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kelbe, David ^a   Romanczyk, Paul ^a   Van Aardt, Jan ^a   Cawse Nicholson, Kerry ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D modeling; Laser scanning; LiDAR; Terrestrial LiDAR; Tree reconstruction; Virtual scene

Indexed keywords

3-D MODELING; LASER SCANNING; TERRESTRIAL LIDARS; TREE RECONSTRUCTION; VIRTUAL SCENES;

FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FORESTRY; RADAR; SCANNING; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

EID: 84881165600     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2015963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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