On my way to the FunGIS LiDAR workshop in Cairns, I stopped in Adelaide to visit Airborne Research Australia. Flinders University recorded my talk on the capabilities for LiDAR processing with LAStools. In this introduction I use a recent project in the Canary islands, Spain, in Spring of 2012 as the example. We created canopy height maps, forest density grids with LAStools and showed that the LiDAR already owned by the municipal government agency could be used to significantly improve their photogrammetrically derived DTMs.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evkU0rYt43k]