Simulation of satellite, airborne and terrestrial LiDAR with DART (II): ALS and TLS multi-pulse acquisitions, photon counting, and solar noise

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 184, Issue , 2016, Pages 454-468

  Yin, Tiangang ^a   Lauret, Nicolas ^a   Gastellu Etchegorry, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

ALS; DART; LiDAR; Multiple pulses; Photon counting; Radiative transfer; Solar noise; TLS

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; THALLIUM;

COMBINED SIMULATION; DART; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MULTIPLE PULSE; PHOTON COUNTING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SOLAR NOISE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE SENSING; DATA ACQUISITION; LIDAR; NOISE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84979938946     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.07.009     Document Type: Article

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