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First Look with LAStools at LiDAR from Hovermap Drone by CSIRO
Last December we had a chance to visit the team of Dr. Stefan Hrabar at CSIRO in Pullenvale near Brisbane who work on a drone LiDAR system called Hovermap. This SLAM-based system is mainly developed...
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LASmoons: Martin Buchauer
Martin Buchauer (recipient of three LASmoons) Cartography & Geomedia Technology University of Applied Science Munich, GERMANY Background: Salt marsh areas provide numerous services such as natural...
View ArticleThree Videos from Full Day Workshop on LiDAR at IIST Trivandrum in India
Three videos from a full day workshop on LiDAR processing at the Department of Earth and Space Sciences of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala,...
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New Step-by-Step Tutorial for Velodyne Drone LiDAR from Snoopy by LidarUSA
The folks from Harris Aerial gave us LiDAR data from a test-flight of one of their drones, the Carrier H4 Hybrid HE (with a 5kg maximum payload and a retail price of US$ 28,000), carrying a Snoopy A...
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LASmoons: Alex S. Olpenda
Alex S. Olpenda (recipient of three LASmoons) Department of Geomatics and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Forestry Warsaw University of Life Sciences, POLAND Background: The Bialowieza Forest is a...
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LASmoons: Maeva Dang
Maeva Dang (recipient of three LASmoons) Industrial Building and interdisciplinary Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering Vienna University of Technology, AUSTRIA Background: After centuries of...
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Complete LiDAR Processing Pipeline: from raw Flightlines to final Products
This tutorial serves as an example for a complete end-to-end workflow that starts with raw LiDAR flightlines (as they may be delivered by a vendor) to final classified LiDAR tiles and derived products...
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LASmoons: Maria Kampouri
Maria Kampouri (recipient of three LASmoons) Remote Sensing Laboratory, School of Rural & Surveying Engineering National and Technical University of Athens, GREECE Background: The Aralar Natural...
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Estonia leads in Open LiDAR: nationwide & multi-temporal Point Clouds now Online
At the beginning of July 2018 the Baltic country of Estonia – with an area of 45 thousand square kilometers inhabited by around 1.3 million people – opened much of their geospatial data archives and is...
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Scrutinizing LiDAR Data from Leica’s Single Photon Scanner SPL100 (aka SPL99)
We show how simple reordering and clever remapping of single photon LiDAR data can reduce file size by a whopping 50%. We also show that there is at least one Leica’s SPL100 sensor out there that...
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City of Guadalajara creates first Open LiDAR Portal of Latin America
Small to medium sized LiDAR data sets can easily be published online for exploration and download with laspublish of LAStools, which is an easy-to-use wrapper around the powerful Potree open source...
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LASmoons: Sebastian Flachmeier
Sebastian Flachmeier (recipient of three LASmoons) UniGIS Master of Science, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA Bavarian Forest National Park, administration, Grafenau, GERMANY Background: The Bavarian...
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CyArk partners with Google, takes over “Don’t be Evil” Mantra, opens LiDAR...
One of our most popular (and controversial) blog articles was “Can You Copyright LiDAR“. It was written after we saw the then chief executive director at CyArk commenting “Sweeeet use of CyArk data” on...
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In Sweden, all they Wanted for Christmas was National LiDAR as Open Data
Let’s heat up some sweet, warm and spicy Glögg in celebration! They must have been good boys and girls up there in Sweden. Because “Jultomten” or simply ”Tomten” – how Sweden’s Santa Clause is called –...
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Scripting LAStools to Create a Clean DTM from Noisy Photogrammetric Point Cloud
A recent inquiry by Drone Deploy in the LAStools user forum gave us access to a nice photogrammetric point cloud for the village of Fillongley in the North Warwickshire district of England. They voted...
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Digital Pothole Removal: Clean Road Surface from Noisy Pix4D Point Cloud
How to generate a clean Digital Terrain Model (DTM) from point clouds that were generated with the image matching techniques implemented in various photogrammetry software packages like those from...
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LASmoons: David Bandrowski
David Bandrowski (recipient of three LASmoons) Yurok Tribe Native American Indian Tribe in Northern California, USA Background: Wild spring-run Chinook salmon populations on the South Fork Trinity...
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No Sugarcoating: Sweet LiDAR from RiCOPTER carrying VUX-1UAV over Sugarcane
Recently we saw an interesting LiDAR data set talked about on social media by Chad Netto from Chustz Surveying in New Roads, Louisiana and asked for a copy. It is a LiDAR scan of a sugarcane plantation...
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Using Open LiDAR to Remove Low Noise from Photogrammetric UAV Point Clouds
We collected drone imagery of the restored “Kance” tavern during the lunch stop of the UAV Tartu summer school field trip (actually the organizer Marko Kohv did that, as I was busy introducing students...
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Smooth DTM from Drone LiDAR off Velodyne HDL 32A mounted on DJI M600 UAV
Recently we attempted to do a small LiDAR survey by drone for a pet project of our CEO in our “code and surf camp” here in Samara, Costa Rica. But surveying is difficult when you are a novice and we...
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