Airborne laser radar: Systems and methods for reconnaissance and terrain modeling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3707, Issue , 1999, Pages 12-26

  Steinvall, Ove K ^a   Soederman, Ulf ^a   Ahlberg, Simon ^a   Sandberg, Martin ^a   Letalick, Dietmar ^a   Jungert, Erland ^a  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Laser radar; Remote sensing; Target recognition; Terrain modeling

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AIRBORNE LASER RADAR; INTENSITY INFORMATION; SCANNING LASER RADAR; SEMI-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENTS; TARGET RECOGNITION; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; TERRAIN MODELING;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 85010105199     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.351338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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