THE OPALS DATA MANAGER – EFFICIENT DATA MANAGEMENT for PROCESSING LARGE AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING PROJECTS

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-159

  Otepka, J ^a   Mandlburger, G ^a   Karel, W ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Airborne Laser Scanning; data management; LIDAR; point clouds; software concept; spatial indices

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042702005     PISSN: 21949042     EISSN: 21949050     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsannals-I-3-153-2012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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