Radiometric calibration of a dual-wavelength, full-waveform terrestrial lidar

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Li, Zhan ^a,b   Jupp, David L B ^c   Strahler, Alan H ^a   Schaaf, Crystal B ^b   Howe, Glenn ^d   Hewawasam, Kuravi ^d   Douglas, Ewan S ^e   Chakrabarti, Supriya ^d   Cook, Timothy A ^d   Paynter, Ian ^b   Saenz, Edward J ^b   Schaefer, Michael ^c,f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^e Boston University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dual wavelength lidar; DWEL; Full waveform lidar; Radiometric calibration; Terrestrial lidar; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ERRORS; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

DUAL WAVELENGTH; DWEL; FULL-WAVEFORMS; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; TERRESTRIAL LIDARS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84959496763     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s16030313     Document Type: Article

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