Characterizing radiometric attributes of point cloud using a normalized reflective factor derived from small footprint LiDAR waveform

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 740-749

  Qin, Yuchu ^a   Yao, Wei ^b   Vu, Tuong Thuy ^c   Li, Shihua ^d   Niu, Zheng ^e   Ban, Yifang ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Correction; intensity; normalized reflective factor (NRF); small footprint light detection and ranging (LiDAR); waveform

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DATA VISUALIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; FORESTRY; LASER BEAMS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION; INTENSITY; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; REFLECTIVE FACTORS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); WAVE FORMS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DATA ACQUISITION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOMETRY; LAND COVER; LIDAR; RADIOMETER; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

GEOMETRY; LAND USE; RADAR; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTANCE;

EID: 85027936274     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2354014     Document Type: Article

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