Dense image matching of terrestrial imagery for deriving high-resolution topographic properties of vegetation locations in alpine terrain

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 66, Issue , 2018, Pages 146-158

  Niederheiser, R ^a,b   Rutzinger, M ^a,b   Bremer, M ^a,b   Wichmann, V ^c  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c LASERDATA GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biogeomorphology; Dense matching; Multi view stereo; Photogrammetry; Point clouds; Structure from Motion; Topography; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 85047520037     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.11.011     Document Type: Article

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