OT Blog
Information and discussion related to high-resolution lidar topography for the Earth sciences
Cyber-GIS Opportunities for High-Resolution Topography Data Access, Processing, and Analysis
Earlier this month, I had the privilege of participating in the National Science Foundation TeraGrid Workshop on Cyber-GIS in Washington, DC.
ILMF meeting will highlight Haiti LiDAR
The International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), a LiDAR industry conference in Denver next month, has just announced in a press release the addition of two presentations related to LiDAR data collected over Haiti (see
Article highlights application of Yakima EarthScope LiDAR to landslide research
The Ellensburg, WA Daily Record News published an article today entitled CWU student Tom Winter studies area's slide history that discusses research being conducted by a Central Washington University graduate student who is mapping landslides in the Yakima River Canyon near Ellensburg:
A quick look at NGA LiDAR from Haiti
As I pointed out in my last post, there has been a concerted effort by a number of groups to acquire LiDAR data over Haiti in the wake of the January 12th earthquake.
Haiti LiDAR
Recent reports indicate that there is LiDAR data being collected by a number of groups over Haiti in the wake of the 12 January magnitude 7.0 earthquake. These data will potentially be powerful for earthquake relief workers and the scientific community, and should be an important geospatial resource in the recovery and rebuilding of Haiti.
Geomorphology: Understanding earth surface processes from remotely sensed digital terrain models
I'm a bit late on this, but the December 1, 2009, Geomorphology special volume: Understanding eart
AAPG Rocky Mountain Section Meeting Lidar Session
An interesting Lidar-oriented session at the AAPG Rocky Mountain Section Meeting in Durango Colorado June 13-16, 2010. Announcement via the GEOMOD-LIDAR-L and ASU LIDAR listservs:
Greetings all,
LAS Conversion Tools: LAStools and LASUtility
The ASPRS LAS format has become the standard for delivery of lidar point cloud data. However, because LAS is a binary format, a reader of some kind is necessary to ingest the data, visualize it, or perform additional analysis. Many of the major GIS software packages now support LAS (e.g. ArcGIS) and all of the commercial lidar specific software read and write LAS data.