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processing, make our method interesting in many applications.
In any case, being the product an open source, the interested
users can also improve its functionalities by changing parts of
the code or implementing new modules.
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The research was partially supported by the Italian Ministry for
School, University and Scientific Reasearch (MIUR) in the
frame of the project MIUR COFIN 2005 “Analisi,
comparazione ed integrazione di immagini digitali acquisite da
piattaforma aerea e satellitare” - National Principal Investigator:
S. Dequal.
We thank Sardinia Region for providing the LiDAR dataset, the
DTM/DSM and the orthophotos.
Moreover we thank all people who have worked at the method
and software development, specifically Dott. Roberto Antolin,
who ported the modules from GRASS 5 to GRASS 6.
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