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National Open LiDAR Strategy of Latvia humiliates Germany, Austria, and other...
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe has around 2 million inhabitants, a territory of 65 thousand square kilometers and – since recently –...
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Another German State Goes Open LiDAR: Saxony
Finally some really good news out of Saxony. After North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia released the first significant amounts of open geospatial data in Germany in a one-two punch in January 2017, we...
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Removing Noise from Single Photon LiDAR to Generate a Smooth DTM
A while back we had a first look at the Single Photon LiDAR from Leica’s SPL100 sensor (that eventually turned out just to be an SPL99 because one beamlet or one receiver in the 10 by 10 array was...
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LASmoons: Volga Lipwoni
Volga Lipwoni (recipient of three LASmoons) Department of Geography, School of Earth and Environment University of Canterbury, NEW ZEALAND Background: Structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry, has...
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Converting Rasters from inefficient ASCII XYZ to more compact LAZ or TIF Formats
The German state of Brandenburg has recently started to provide many of their basic geospatial data as open data, such as digital ortophotos in TIF and JPG formats, vertical and horizontal control...
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Philippines use Taal Vulcano Eruption as Opportunity to become Very First...
UPDATE: As of January 30th also classified LAZ tiles are available for download. It took just a few years of nagging, a vulcanic eruption, and then a few more weeks of nagging but now it has happened....
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LASmoons: Martin Romain
Martin Romain (recipient of three LASmoons) Marshall Islands Conservation Society Majuro, Republic of the MARSHALL ISLANDS Background: As a low-lying coastal nation, the Republic of the Marshall...
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Scanning Samara with LiDAR and Images using Helicopter of Stereocarto
After weeks of planning the helicopter finally came. Since we have been cooperating with Stereocarto‘s San Jose office for quite some time, we were finally able to lure their helicopter down to...
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Generating DTM for “fluffy” Livox MID-40 LiDAR via “median ground” points
In the last article about the Livox MID-40 LiDAR scan of Samara we quality checked the data, aligned the flight lines and cleaned the remaining spurious scan lines. In this article we will process...
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LASmoons: Olumese Efeovbokhan
Olumese Efeovbokhan (recipient of another three LASmoons) Geosciences, School of Geography University of Nottingham, UK Background: Hydrological models require various input data for flood...
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