Applying terrestrial laser scanning for soil surface roughness assessment

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 2007-2045

  Milenkovic, Milutin ^a   Pfeifer, Norbert ^a   Glira, Philipp ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Correlation length; Root mean square height; Roughness spectrum; Spatial resolution; Spectral slope; Surface roughness; Terrestrial laser scanning; Triangulating scanner

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT; SCANNING; SOILS; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURVEYING;

CORRELATION LENGTHS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; ROUGHNESS SPECTRUM; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL SLOPES; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TRIANGULATING SCANNER;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84928822823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70202007     Document Type: Article

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