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Mixing-layer height retrieval with ceilometer and Doppler lidar: from case studies to long-term assessment
... (2008) but this might be related to their retrieval: their data set was restricted to cloud-free conditions and due to the overlap function of their lidar they had to restrict to MLHs larger than 300 m. Both of ...
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Automated Lidar-Derived Canopy Height Estimates for the Upper Mississippi River System
... local maximum filter is better suited for determining the average height of individual trees within the extent of each land cover ...the lidar-derived height values were based on all ...
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Relationship analysis of PM2.5 and boundary layer height using an aerosol and turbulence detection lidar
... decades, lidar are widely used in the lower at- mosphere via Mie scattering, Raman scattering and differ- ential absorption (Campbell et ...these lidar. Recently, a micro-pulse direct-detection lidar ...
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Lidar-based remote sensing of atmospheric boundary layer height over land and ocean
... the maximum of the variance profile (Emeis et ...by lidar consistent with BLH from ABL thermody- namical ...suitable lidar-based methodology under different condi- tions to minimize the ...
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Characterization of the planetary boundary layer height and structure by Raman lidar: comparison of different approaches
... with height within the mixed layer. The level of the maximum vertical gradient in potential temperature indicates the transition from a convec- tively unstable region, located below this ...
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An improved building detection in complex sites using the LIDAR height variation and point density
... the LIDAR data are jointly used to verify the detected edges or the building area from the GF or MF respectively ...Gaussian maximum likelihood and the Markov random field are applied on the ...
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Adaptive estimation of the stable-boundary-layer height using combined lidar and microwave radiometer observations
... Layer Height (ABLH) are needed for several applications ranging from weather, avionics and air-quality and dispersion ...its maximum height in the ...
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Pathfinder: applying graph theory to consistent tracking of daytime mixed layer height with backscatter lidar
... Next, only connections to vertices within a restricted ver- tical range are allowed – represented by the additional or- ange and blue arrows in Fig. 2b. The blue connections are allowed, but the orange connections are ...
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Performance evaluation of the boundary-layer height from lidar and the weather research and forecasting model at an urban coastal site in the North-East Iberian Peninsula
... PBL height accurately, depending on the instrument ...the lidar-extended Kalman filter ...to lidar-extended Kalman filter ...daytime maximum PBL ...PBL height to the ...
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On the Determination of Building Footprints from LIDAR Data
... passes the initial threshold test. Therefore, the upper-left neighbor is tested based on whether or not it already belongs to a region. If it already belongs to a region, then the testing of this pixel fails, and the ...
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Thin and thick cloud top height retrieval algorithm with the Infrared Camera and LIDAR of the JEM-EUSO Space Mission
... shower maximum is visible, with a slightly worse resolution than the one we would get for the same event in a clear ...cloud height from the temperature measured by the IR camera, using a single ...
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Comparison of aerosol lidar retrieval methods for boundary layer height detection using ceilometer aerosol backscatter data
... Overall, all methods are able to capture the NSL, the growth of the BL, and the peak BLH reasonably well, with the clus- ter method showing the most variability due to the detection of lofted aerosol layer signals ...
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3D-Building Reconstruction with Different Height Levels from Airborne LiDAR Data
... As LiDAR (light detection and ranging) considers a superior tech- nology for 3D data acquisition from Earth’s surface and delivers point clouds with high ...utilizing LiDAR data of an interested area ...
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Canopy height estimation from lidar data using open source software compared with commercial software
... in LIDAR system Before LIDAR is developed, maps can be produced using conventional methods such as geodetic and photogrammetric ...of LIDAR is particularly high because it promises to provide ...
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Wheat Height Estimation Using LiDAR in Comparison to Ultrasonic Sensor and UAS
... plant height estimation at present, ultrasonic sensor, LiDAR and UAS can be favored over one another because of the unique advantages and disadvantages they ...plant height measurement ...farther ...
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Improved mixing height monitoring through a combination of lidar and radon measurements
... to lidar for quantifying vertical mixing near the ...released from the surface at a relatively constant ...measured from aircraft (Williams et al., 2011), or gradient measurements from towers ...
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The effect of uncertainty in earthquake fault parameters on the maximum wave height from a tsunami propagation model
... change from positive to negative over very short length scales these issues cannot be simply solved by using a different type of σ ...hazard from the events in any tails of these skewed dis- tributions are ...
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Influence of micro-topography and crown characteristics on tree height estimations in tropical forests based on LiDAR canopy height models.
... the height of the cell under consideration, and coeffi- cients generated from tree height and crown width measurements in similar ...surface height from a CHM (Kini and Popescu, 2004; ...
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Low-level mixing height detection in coastal locations with a scanning Doppler lidar
... arise from fact that, over the relatively large volume of at- mosphere covered by the VAD scan, there are often non- turbulent changes in the horizontal wind speed and direction on scales of hundreds of metres to ...
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Biomass and crop height estimation of different crops using UAV-based LiDAR
... 2.4.1. LiDAR Based Plant Height Due to the difference in the structure of the crop canopies, the highest point in the point cloud is not always the best representation for the field-measured crop ...plant ...
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