Assessment of waveform features for lidar uncertainty modeling in a coastal salt marsh environment

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 569-573

  Parrish, Christopher E ^a,b   Rogers, Jeffrey N ^c,d   Calder, Brian R ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies   (United States)

^d University of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

Geospatial analysis; Lasers; Lidar; Ranging; Sea coast

Indexed keywords

LASERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANGE FINDING; ROCK MECHANICS; SURVEYS; TRACKING (POSITION); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WETLANDS;

COASTAL MANAGEMENT; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; GEO-SPATIAL ANALYSIS; MULTI-LINEAR REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT REGRESSION; SEA COAST; TOTAL VARIABILITIES; UNCERTAINTY MODELING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84896401672     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2280182     Document Type: Article

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