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LIDAR Details - Background
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LIDAR is a well established surveying technology,
that has been in development for over twenty years.
The survey equipment can be mounted in a helicopter
or small single or twin engine fixed-wing aircraft.
For most of this time LIDAR has been used to map
and model terrain and elevation. However, the potential
for this technology is beginning to be recognized
in the realm of commercial forestry and forest management.
It has the ability to create elevation and terrain
maps which are much more accurate than pre-existing
sources, model the ground surface underneath a forest
canopy, and model forest canopy structures.
As more research is done with LIDAR, these applications
are becoming more accurate and useful, and new applications
are being developed.
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