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Leonidas Alagialoglou (recipient of three LASmoons) Multimedia Understanding Group, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, GREECE Background: Canopy height is a fundamental geometric tree parameter in supporting sustainable forest management. Apart from the standard height measurement method using LiDAR instruments, other airborne measurement techniques, such as very high-resolution passive airborne imaging, have also shown to provide […]

Zak Kus (recipient of three LASmoons) Topology Enthusiast San Francisco, USA Background: While LiDAR data enables a lot of research and innovation in a lot of fields, it can also be used to create unique and visceral art. Using the high resolution data available, a 3D printer, and a long tool chain, we can create

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 Islands (RMI) is at the forefront of exposure to climate change impacts. RMI has a strong dependence on natural resources and biodiversity not only for food and income

The municipality of São Paulo just dropped a MASSIVE amount of open LiDAR upon the geospatial community – a whopping 33 billion points. São Paulo city now has their own Entwine Point Tiles (EPT) service available for everyone interested in downloading, visualizing, or otherwise accessing this amazing data set. The EPT point cloud service can

You have guessed correctly. This is mostly fake news as our „Freistaat“ (read „Free State„) of Bavaria continues to tightly guard all of its tax-payer funded geospatial basis data for no good reason. Our other „Free State“ – that of Thuringia – has become one poster child of open data in Germany with North Rhine-Westphalia

UPDATE: As of January 30th also orthophotos and 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. The Philippines have become the first country in Asia to offering LiDAR as open data for

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 emerged as an effective tool to accurately extract three-dimensional (3D) structures from a series of overlapping two-dimensional (2D) Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) images. The bid to switch from the