Assessment of Coastal-Vegetation Habitats Using Airborne Laser Remote Sensing

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 365-389

  Nayegandhi, Amar ^a   Brock, John C ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Airborne Laser Scanning; Canopy Height; Differential Global Position System; Inertial Measurement Unit; Lidar System

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AIRBORNE LASERS; CANOPY HEIGHTS; COASTAL VEGETATION; DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITION SYSTEM; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS UNITS; LASER REMOTE SENSING; LIDAR SYSTEMS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85108419915     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88183-4_16     Document Type: Chapter

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