Multiview Marker-Free Registration of Forest Terrestrial Laser Scanner Data with Embedded Confidence Metrics

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 729-741

  Kelbe, David ^a,b   Van Aardt, Jan ^a   Romanczyk, Paul ^a,c   Van Leeuwen, Martin ^a,d   Cawse Nicholson, Kerry ^a,e  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forestry; image registration; laser radar

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR;

COMPREHENSIVE MEASUREMENT; MULTI-VIEW REGISTRATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; REGISTRATION ALGORITHMS; REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECISION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; SCANNER;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84992045365     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2614251     Document Type: Article

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