Assessing the feasibility of UAV-based lidar for high resolution forest change detection

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

Volumn 39, Issue , 2012, Pages 499-504

  Wallace, L O ^a   Lucieer, A ^a   Watson, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change Detection; Forestry; LiDAR; Unmanned Aerial Systems

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SURVEYS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; CAMERA ORIENTATION; CHANGE DETECTION; DISCRETE RETURNS; NOVEL PROCESSING; POINTING ACCURACY; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION ALGORITHM; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DATA PROCESSING; FORESTS; RADAR; SATELLITES;

EID: 84903197756     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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