Lidar data processing

Airborne Lidar Data Processing and Information Extraction

February 2007 109 continued on page 110 Lidar is changing the paradigm of terrain mapping and gaining popularity in many applications such as floodplain mapping, hydrology, geomorphology, forest inventory, urban planning, and landscape ecology. One of the major barriers for a wider application of lidar used to be the high cost of data acquisition. However, this problem has been greatly alleviat...

Advanced Lidar Data Processing with Lastools

This paper introduces LasTools, a new software suite for the operational processing of data from advanced airborne lidar sensor systems. LasTools provides the tools required to generate DSMs and DTMs from raw or basically preprocessed lidar data in a stand-alone application. It features intelligent management of project data, import and geocoding of raw lidar and image data, system calibration,...

Managing and processing LIDAR data within GRASS

LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is one of the most recent technologies in surveying and mapping. The LIDAR is based on the combination of three different data collection tools: a laser scanner mounted on an aircraft, a Global Positioning System (GPS) used in phase differential kinematic modality to provide the sensor position and an Inertial Navigation System (INS) to provide the orientatio...

Analysis and Processing of Airborne LIDAR Data

Pre-processing of raw lidar data

EARLINET Single Calculus Chain – technical – Part 1: Pre-processing of raw lidar data G. D’Amico, A. Amodeo, I. Mattis, V. Freudenthaler, and G. Pappalardo Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale (CNR-IMAA), Tito Scalo, Potenza, Italy Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Meteorologisches Instit...