Decomposition of laser altimeter waveforms

By M. Hofton, Jean-Bernard H. Minster, J. Blair. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Instrumentation

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In Ecology

1. Mathias I. Disney
2. John Armston
3. Karen Anderson
4. Kevin J. Gaston
5. Clément Mallet
6. A. Baselga
7. Hanna Tuomisto
8. Steven L. Chown

In Environmental Engineering

1. Peter Krzystek
2. J. Reitberger
3. Francesco Pirotti
4. Clément Mallet
5. Uwe Stilla
6. Mathias I. Disney
7. Karen Anderson
8. Amy L. Neuenschwander

In Instrumentation

1. Peter Krzystek
2. J. Reitberger
3. Uwe Stilla
4. Clément Mallet
5. Karen Anderson
6. Kevin J. Gaston
7. Francesco Pirotti
8. Norbert Pfeifer

Citations in the corpus

• Waveform lidar over vegetation: An evaluation of inversion methods for estimating return energy (2015, methodology): “Some of the methods rely on the identification of turning points in order to pick initial estimates (GAU, LOG and GGA) or to determine the number of individual features within a single return (GAU, LOG, GGA, PEA,WS3, WS5, WS7, QUA, QUP, TPG and CAR) and so could benefit from smoothing the data in or”
• Analysis of full-waveform LiDAR data for classification of an orange orchard scene (2013, neutral): “Hofton et al. (2000) assumed that the width of received waveform pulses cannot be narrower than the width of transmitted pulse, while proposing Gaussian decomposition.”
• Segmentation of tree regions using data of a full-waveform laser (2007, background): “The waveform of each pulse is described by a series of range values combined with amplitude values and can be approximated by one or more parameterized Gaussian curves (Hofton et al., 2000).”
• Landcover classification of small-footprint, full-waveform lidar data (2009, background): “This process is an established methodology and has been proven to reduce the contribution of background noise to any additional optimization procedures [19].”
• Analysis of full waveform LIDAR data for the classification of deciduous and coniferous trees (2008, background): “Hofton et al. (2000) suggest fitting several Gaussian functions to the waveform in a nonlinear least squares adjustment.”
• Overview of ICESat's Laser Measurements of Polar Ice, Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land (2002, methodology): “Hofton et al. (2000b) describe topographic mapping of the Long Valley caldera in California, and Weishampel et al. (2000) report on canopy vertical structure mapping of a tropical rainforest in Costa Rica.”
• Full-waveform topographic lidar : State-of-the-art (2009, background): “vegetated areas, both for large-footprint and small-footprint lidar data (Hofton et al., 2000; Wagner et al., 2006).”