Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Lidar Map of the Forest















LIDAR

LIDAR stands for Light Detection And Ranging. LIDAR measures properties of scattered light and or other information of a target.  Unlike radar, LIDAR uses much shorter wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.  This map above is a LIDAR image taken of a forest by an environmental group.  This particular group uses LIDAR to see the vegetation cover and tree heights of a particular forest area.

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