Moderate to high altitude, single photon sensitive, 3D imaging lidars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9114, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Degnan, John J ^a   Field, Christopher T ^a  

^a SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Airborne multibeam lidar; Bathymetry; Cryosphere; Forestry; Photon counting; Surveying

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; BATHYMETRY; FORESTRY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; SURVEYING; SURVEYS; TIMBER;

3D IMAGING; CRYOSPHERE; HIGH RANGE RESOLUTION; MULTIBEAMS; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; MULTIPLE RETURNS; PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE PHOTONS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

AIR CRAFT; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES; RADAR; SURVEYING;

EID: 84906330848     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2049995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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