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Creating DTMs from dense-matched points of UAV imagery from SenseFly’s eBee
Tim Sutton and his team at Kartoza work on flood modelling and risk assessment using Inasafe. They have been trying to generate a DTM from point cloud data derived via dense-matching from UAV imagery...
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LASmoons: Anu Kramer
Anu Kramer (recipient of three LASmoons) Stephens Lab, Fire Science Laboratory Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California at Berkeley, USA Background: Large...
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Removing low noise from Semi-Global Matching (SGM) Points
At PhoWo and INTERGEO 2015 rapidlasso was spending quality time with VisionMap who make the A3 Edge camera that provides fine resolution images from high altitudes and can quickly cover large areas....
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LASmoons: Kiti Suomalainen
Kiti Suomalainen (recipient of three LASmoons) Energy Centre University of Auckland, New Zealand Background: Auckland enjoys 2050 hours of sunshine annually, comparable to Melbourne (2100) and Istanbul...
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LASmoons: Raja Ram Aryal
Raja Ram Aryal (recipient of three LASmoons) Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, GERMANY Background: Obtaining LiDAR-derived products like Digital Terrain Models...
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Rapidlasso receives “Green Asia Award” at ACRS 2015
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) November 16, 2015 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany At the Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2015 (ACRS 2015) held in Manila, rapidlasso GmbH was honored with...
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LASmoons: Alejandro Hinojosa
Alejandro Hinojosa (recipient of three LASmoons) Earth Sciences Division CICESE, MEXICO Background: The Baja California peninsula in Mexico is a land feature drifting away from the continent due to...
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The dArc Force Awakens: ESRI escalates LiDAR format war
The empire has not changed their evil ways, despite an encouraging email from ESRI’s founder and president Jack Dangermond in response to the Open Letter by the OSGeo that was delivered to ESRI, OGC,...
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LASmoons: Geoffrey Ower
Geoffrey Ower (recipient of three LASmoons) School of Biological Sciences Illinois State University, Normal, USA Background: The spatial distribution and abundance of mosquitoes is important because...
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Create proper LAS 1.4 files with LAStools (for free)
So your LiDAR processing workflow produces beautiful LAS or LAZ output. You think the files are nothing short of perfect. But they are in LAS 1.2 format and the tender document explicitly requests...
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LASmoons: Andreas Konring and Susanne Bjerg Petersen
Andreas Konring and Susanne Bjerg Petersen (recipients of three LASmoons) Department of Environmental Engineering Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DENMARK Background: Copenhagen has in the...
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Generating Spike-Free Digital Surface Models from LiDAR
A Digital Surface Model (DSM) represents the elevation of the landscape including all vegetation and man-made objects. An easy way to generate a DSM raster from LiDAR is to use the highest elevation...
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New ‘laspublish’ creates Web Portals for 3D Viewing and Downloading of LiDAR
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) February 18, 2016 rapidlasso GmbH, Gilching, Germany Just in time for ILMF 2016, the makers of the open LASzip LiDAR compressor annouce the latest addition to...
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LASmoons: Asanga Ramanayake
Asanga Ramanayake (recipient of three LASmoons) BGSU Remote Sensing Lab, School of Earth, Environment and Society Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA Background: Lake Erie is the Southern most of...
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Fixing Intensity Differences between Flightlines (“quick and dirty”)
Visiting our users on-site, such as last week at Mariano Marcos State University in Ilocos Norte in the Philippines, we sometimes come across situations as pictured below where the intensity values of...
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LASmoons: Jakob Iglhaut
Jakob Iglhaut (recipient of three LASmoons) Program for Geospatial Information Management Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, AUSTRIA Background: As part of the EU LIFE programme two...
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LASmoons: Patricia Andrade
Patricia Andrade (recipient of three LASmoons) Earth Sciences Division CICESE, MEXICO Background: The relief in the northwest coast of Baja California is subject to different processes. One process...
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LASmoons: Jane Meiforth
Jane Meiforth (recipient of three LASmoons) Environmental Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics University of Trier, GERMANY Background: The New Zealand Kauri trees (or Agathis australis) are under threat...
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First Open LiDAR in Germany
UPDATE: (January 6th): Our new tutorial “downloading Bonn in LiDAR“. UPDATE: (January 9th): Now a second state went open LiDAR as well. UPDATE: (March 6th): New tutorial “merging Bonn into proper LAS...
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NRW Open LiDAR: Download, Compression, Viewing
UPDATE: (March 6th): Second part “merging Bonn into proper LAS files” This is the first part of a series on how to process the newly released open LiDAR data for the entire state of North...
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