Imaging scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have several new projects in the works to improve the way waveform LiDAR can be used to study forests. Professor Jan van Aardt from the Chester ...

Laser detection and ranging has emerged as an attractive alternative and complement to three-pronged radar, hyperspectral and photogrammetric imaging systems, partly because of the technology’s ...

Spaceborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has become a powerful tool for observing forest height, biomass, carbon stocks, and vertical canopy structure. Yet turning waveform signals into detailed ...

Imaging scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have several new projects in the works to improve the way waveform LiDAR can be used to study forests. Professor Jan van Aardt from the Chester ...

A new study shows that not all simplifications in spaceborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) modeling are equally reliable. By testing realistic forest canopies, researchers found that some ...

The problem is that these assumptions are not always tested against realistic forest scenes, making it hard to know which ones are safe and which ones distort the signal. Based on these challenges, ...