Height Extraction of Maize Using Airborne Full-Waveform LIDAR Data and a Deconvolution Algorithm

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1978-1982

  Gao, Shuai ^a   Niu, Zheng ^a   Sun, Gang ^a   Zhao, Dan ^a   Jia, Kun ^b   Qin, Yuchu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Full waveforms; Height; Light detection and ranging (LIDAR); Maize; Point clouds; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CROPS; EXTRACTION; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

FULL-WAVEFORMS; HEIGHT; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MAIZE; POINT CLOUD;

DECONVOLUTION;

EID: 85027949013     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2441655     Document Type: Article

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