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Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR)

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Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) is an active laser measuring technology that combines laser scanning and Position and Orientation System (POS) in imaging for generation of accurate and dense 3D point clouds, Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and Digital Surface Models (DSMs). Other value addition products such as contours, slope maps, tree and building height models and cut-and-fill models can also be produced from the primary LiDAR point cloud data.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

— Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

With Contribution by Ian Asige Mweresa, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Nairobi, Kenya.

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Awange, J., Kiema, J. (2019). Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR). In: Environmental Geoinformatics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03017-9_21

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