Factors affecting the quality of DTM generation in forested areas

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 36, Issue , 2005, Pages 85-90

  Hyyppä, Hannu ^a   Yu, Xiaowei ^b   Hyyppä, Juha ^b   Kaartinen, Harri ^b   Kaasalainen, Sanna ^b   Honkavaara, Eija ^b   Rönnholm, Petri ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Algorithms; ALS; Digital terrain model; DTM; Quality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ALUMINUM; FORESTRY; IMAGE QUALITY; LANDFORMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING;

ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; BOREAL FOREST ZONE; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ELEVATION MODELS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FLIGHT ALTITUDES; SEASONAL EFFECTS;

RANDOM ERRORS;

EID: 84884575671     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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