LASmoons: Zak Kus
Zak Kus (recipient of three LASmoons) Topology Enthusiast San Francisco, USA Background: While LiDAR data enables a lot of research and innovation in a lot of fields, it can also be used to create...
View ArticleLASmoons: Leonidas Alagialoglou
Leonidas Alagialoglou (recipient of three LASmoons) Multimedia Understanding Group, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, GREECE Background: Canopy height is a fundamental geometric tree...
View ArticleSwiss add liberal “Open LiDAR” and break with conservative stereotypes like...
My new favorite Swiss Miss, Viola Amherd, said today “Geodaten gehören heute zur Infrastruktur wie die Straßen und die Eisenbahn”, which says that “today, geodata are part of the infrastructure like...
View ArticleStrip Aligning of Drone LiDAR flown with Livox MID-40 over destroyed Mangrove
September 11th 2020 seemed like a fitting day to hunt down – with a powerful drone – those who destroy our common good. The latest DJI M300 RTK drone came to visit me in Samara, Guanacaste, Costa Rica...
View ArticlePreparing Drone LiDAR from Snoopy by LidarUSA carrying a Velodyne HDL-32E
In March 2019 I was welcoming Nelson Mattie from LiDAR Latinoamerica to Samara who brought along his versatile Snoopy A-Series scanning system by LidarUSA that is based on the Velodyne HDL-32E...
View ArticleGenerating DTM for “fluffy” Livox MID-40 LiDAR via “median ground” points
In the last article about the Livox MID-40 LiDAR scan of Samara we quality checked the data, aligned the flight lines and cleaned the remaining spurious scan lines. In this article we will process...
View ArticleLASmoons: Olumese Efeovbokhan
Olumese Efeovbokhan (recipient of another three LASmoons) Geosciences, School of Geography University of Nottingham, UK Background: Hydrological models require various input data for flood...
View ArticleScanning Samara with LiDAR and Images using Helicopter of Stereocarto
After weeks of planning the helicopter finally came. Since we have been cooperating with Stereocarto‘s San Jose office for quite some time, we were finally able to lure their helicopter down to...
View ArticleNew “LidarBC” Portal adds plenty of Precise Points to Open LiDAR in Canada, eh?
Around 86,000 square kilometres of the province of British Columbia have been mapped using LiDAR and these high-tech point clouds are now released as open data. More about these big news can be found...
View ArticleLASmoons: Martin Romain
Martin Romain (recipient of three LASmoons) Marshall Islands Conservation Society Majuro, Republic of the MARSHALL ISLANDS Background: As a low-lying coastal nation, the Republic of the Marshall...
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