Video - From Point Cloud to Supporting Decisions: Making use of your LiDAR data

Authors
Murray Woods
Resource Date:
March
2012

The resource link to the left links to Part 1 of this presentation. 

View Part 2 here.

At the 2012 LiDAR workshop, Murray Woods - Senior Analyst, Forested Landscapes with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources - discusses how to use LiDAR data, in particular for forestry, but for government and industry in general. Specifically, he reviews how LiDAR data is used for forest inventories, how to do it well, how accurate the results are, and how much you need. Finally, Woods describes a decision-making support tool called AFRIDS.

In March 2012, over 300 people gathered in Edmonton to participate in a 2-day workshop about how LiDAR technology is being used in Alberta, and the potential future applications for LiDAR data. The Land-use Knowledge Network was able to record the presentations.