| Abstract: |
LiDAR and the resulting topographic products are becoming popular tools for the GIS community. This presentation is a case study of LiDAR products created for the Massachusetts Military Reservation and surrounding area. Topics include LiDAR basics, working with large amounts of raw data, digital elevation models, hillshades, triangular area networks, contour creation, minimizing anomalies, extracting canopy structure, 3-D depictions, and a discussion about the limits of feature extraction from the data. |