A new method for generating canopy height models from discrete-return LiDAR point clouds

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 575-582

  Liu, Haijian ^a   Dong, Pinliang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY;

CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; DISCRETE-RETURN LIDAR; LIDAR POINT CLOUDS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MECHANISM-BASED; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SURFACE REPRESENTATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

DATA; FORESTRY; RADAR;

EID: 84904655696     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2014.938180     Document Type: Article

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