Data processing and quality evaluation of a boat-based mobile laser scanning system

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 12497-12515

  Vaaja, Matti ^a   Kukko, Antero ^b   Kaartinen, Harri ^b   Kurkela, Matti ^a   Kasvi, Elina ^c   Flener, Claude ^c   Hyyppä, Hannu ^a,d   Hyyppä, Juha ^b   Järvelä, Juha ^a   Alho, Petteri ^a,c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI METROPOLIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Data processing; Digital elevation model; Filtering; Fluvial geomorphology; Ground point classification; Mobile laser scanning; River survey

Indexed keywords

BOATS; DATA PROCESSING; FILTRATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROUND POINT; LASER SCANNING; LASER SCANNING SYSTEMS; MOBILE MAPPING SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH REFLECTIONS; PROCESSING APPROACH;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84884364350     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130912497     Document Type: Article

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