Modeling lidar waveforms in heterogeneous and discrete canopies

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

• Publication date

  2001-09-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1109/36.951085
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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