Lidar Links

 

Follow these links for more information on existing and proposed lidar systems which target forest structure applications. There are also links to companies and organisations involved with carbon accounting and greenhouse gas emission. possible use of lidar technology in the disiplines of mapping or monitoring.

 

Lidar Systems

General

Airborne Laser Mapping
An excellent site for obtaining information on all the current ground looking lidar systems and companies

Puget Sound Lidar consortium.

Scanning the horizons – airborne laser scanning newsletter from AAM Geoscan.

 

NASA airborne systems

SLICER

RASCAL

LVIS

GLAS

 

NASA satellite and Shuttle Systems

SLA-01

SLA-02

University of Maryland/NASA Satellite

Vegetation Canopy Lidar - VCL

Associated Companies and Departments

Australian Greenhouse Office

 

Acronyms

AGO

Australian Greenhouse Office

LVIS

Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor

RASCAL

Raster Scanning Airborne Lidar

SLA

Shuttle Laser Altimeter

GLAS

Geoscience Laser Altimeter System

SLICER

Scanning Lidar of Canopies by Echo Recovery

VCL

Vegetation Canopy Lidar

 

 

 


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