Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar

With 20 step-by-step tutorials, Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar helps you understand, manage, analyze, and create immersive 3D products using lidar data.

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Through 20 step-by-step tutorials, gain the knowledge to understand, manage, analyze, and create immersive 3D products using lidar data.

Throughout Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar, you'll discover a range of essential lidar skills and best practices for preparing and storing data, sharing methods, and rendering techniques. Each chapter presents a bite-sized, standalone tutorial with easy-to-follow steps, accompanied by tips and considerations that enhance your understanding of the underlying concepts.

Using 20 step-by-step tutorials you will explore how to:



Assess lidar data properties and correct common errors
Visualize lidar data and convert between data types
Create final data products and maps
Classify lidar data
Assess point spacing and density
Use constraints
Apply manual and automated classification
Calculate volume and other measurements
Create 3D surfaces such as digital terrain models and digital surface models
Extract features such as trees and buildings
Create viewsheds
Perform shadow analysis
Apply raster functions
Leverage deep learning

Whether you're new to lidar or looking to expand your skills, Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar provides a practical and accessible resource for exploring lidar data sources, working in 3D, and creating data-driven outputs.