Detection of weak laser pulses by full waveform stacking

PIA 2007 - Photogrammetric Image Analysis, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 25-30

  Stilla, U ^a   Yao, W ^a   Jutzi, B ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlation; Laser scanning; Pulse detection; Stacking; Waveform; Weak pulse signal

Indexed keywords

LASER SCANNING; PULSE DETECTION; PULSE SIGNAL; STACKING; WAVE FORMS;

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA HANDLING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 84883036403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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