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Welcome to the early April issue of LiDAR News. Having just returned from ASPRS 2012, the focus now turns to SPAR 2012, which is less than two weeks away. I hear this is going to be the largest and best SPAR to date, and we'll have a fresh new magazine for the occasion. SPAR is offering a discount to all LiDAR News readers, it's worth checking out if you can make it Houston.
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Final Projects – Oregon State University Digital Terrain Modeling Class Winter 2012
It is that time of the quarter again where I am buried in projects to grade. We just wrapped up another round of the Digital Terrain Modeling Course at OSU. We had 17 graduate students in the class from backgrounds including Civil Engineering (many focused on Geomatics), Geography, Water Resources, Forestry Engineering, and Biological and Ecological Engineering. In the...
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Check out our video of the week, hand-picked by our editorial team:
LiDAR-based Wet-areas Mapping
This is an impressive video from the wet-areas initiative at the Forest Watershed Research Centre of the University of New Brunswick ...
Please drop a line if you have any questions or requests: editor@lidarnews.com.
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Bringing Digital Preservation to Universities: Justin Barton – This spring, CyArk will be working closely with our partners, the University of Colorado, Denver’s Center of Preservation Research (CoPR) in the USA and the Geomatics department of University KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. CoPR and UKZN will be receiving their second year of training as Technology ...
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Mobile LiDAR Point Classification: Stephen Clancy – LiDAR point classification, quite simply, is the process of organizing points of similar type or characteristic into groups. In the LAS specifications, developed by the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ASPRS), base classifications are provided with values and general meanings. As ...
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This section is an update about LiDAR conferences, training, seminars, webinars and other relevant events. Feel free to make a suggestion for future consideration.
Rapidform Success Conference 2012 – Denver, CO: April 2 - April 5
SPAR International 2012 – Houston, TX: April 15 - April 18
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LiDAR Magazine - Volume 2, Number 1, 2012
• Remember Gutenberg? • Digitally Preserving Rani ki Vav& • IPLER • EdgeWise Plant 2.0 Review • Dimensional AugmentedReality • SPAR-Europe & ELMF • Airport Obstruction Mapping • Queensland Flood Mapping • Facility Upgrading LiDAR ...and more!
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