Capabilities and performance of dual-wavelength Echidna® lidar

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Howe, Glenn A ^a   Hewawasam, Kuravi ^a   Douglas, Ewan S ^b   Martel, Jason ^a   Li, Zhan ^c   Strahler, Alan ^d   Schaaf, Crystal ^c   Cook, Timothy A ^a   Chakrabarti, Supriya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dual wavelength laser scanner; forest structure measurement; lidar; terrestrial laser scanner

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; REFLECTION; SCANNING; VEGETATION;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; DUAL WAVELENGTH LASER; FOREST STRUCTURE; FOREST VEGETATION; GROUND-BASED LIDARS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84952705847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.9.095979     Document Type: Article

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