Filtering airborne lidar data by modified white top-hat transform with directional edge constraints

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 133-141

  Li, Yong ^a   Yong, Bin ^a   Wu, Huayi ^b   An, Ru ^a   Xu, Hanwei ^a   Xu, Jia ^a   He, Qisheng ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; DIFFERENCE THRESHOLD; EDGE CONSTRAINTS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; NOVEL ALGORITHM; OMISSION AND COMMISSION ERRORS; STABILITY AND RELIABILITIES; TOP-HAT TRANSFORM;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALGORITHM; LIDAR; LIGHT EFFECT; SATELLITE DATA; TRANSFORM;

LEPIDIUM APPELIANUM;

EID: 84893849307     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.80.2.133-141     Document Type: Article

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