Comparison of Kinect and terrestrial LiDAR capturing natural karst cave 3-D objects

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1896-1900

  Hämmerle, Martin ^a   Höfle, Bernhard ^a   Fuchs, Johannes ^a   Schröder Ritzrau, Andrea ^a   Vollweiler, Nicole ^a   Frank, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kinect; KinFu; Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR); morphometry; speleothems; terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)

Indexed keywords

CAVES; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

KINECT; KINFU; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MORPHOMETRY; SPELEOTHEMS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84901855692     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2313599     Document Type: Article

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