Factors affecting the airborne laser scanning intensity data

8th International Conference on Environmental Engineering, ICEE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1511-1515

  Vain, Ants ^a,b   Liba, Natalja ^b   Sepp, Kalev ^b  

^a Estonian Land Board ^*  (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric attenuation; Calibration; Incidence angle; Intensity; Lambertian backscattering; Reflectance

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; REFLECTION; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTENSITY; INTENSITY VALUES; LAMBERTIAN;

GAIN CONTROL;

EID: 84929429349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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