Performance evaluation of lightweight LiDAR for UAV applications

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 792-795

  Esposito, Salvatore ^a,d   Mura, Matteo ^b   Fallavollita, Paolo ^a,d   Balsi, Marco ^a,d   Chirici, Gherardo ^b   Oradini, Arturo ^c   Marchetti, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^c SRL   (Italy)

^d Oben Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

airborne LiDAR; forestry; RPAS; UAV

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE LIDAR; FORESTED AREA; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; RELATIVE ERRORS; RPAS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84911386123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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