Workshop: Lidar Remote Sensing of Terrain and Vegetation Instructor: Dr. Qi Chen Lidar is a revolutionary and rapidly evolving technology that is changing the paradigm of terrain and vegetation mapping in the remote sensing community. This workshop is tailored to researchers with interests of using lidar for environmental applications such as DTM extraction and analysis, biomass and carbon mapping, fire hazard assessment, wildlife analysis, forestry inventory, ecological modeling, among others. The main objectives are to: 1) briefly introduce the lidar sensors, platforms, and data in the context of terrain and vegetation mapping; 2) present an overview of the key issues and workflows for terrain and vegetation mapping using lidar; 3) discuss in depth the state-of-the-art algorithms for mapping vegetation as detailed as at the individual level; 4) introduce area-based landscape-level vegetation mapping using airborne lidar and the common pitfalls in modeling; 5) present practical examples of using large-scale airborne lidar for mapping forest structural variables such as biomass and carbon and characterizing the uncertainty; 6) introduce the past and future satellite lidar systems and the relevant methods of terrain and vegetation mapping, discuss the future trends of lidar remote sensing, including new research opportunities, hot topics, and technical challenges.
Workshop: Lidar Remote Sensing of Terrain and Vegetation Instructor: Dr. Qi Chen Lidar is a revolutionary and rapidly evolving technology that is changing the paradigm of terrain and vegetation mapping in the remote sensing community. This workshop is tailored to researchers with interests of using lidar for environmental applications such as DTM extraction and analysis, biomass and carbon mapping, fire hazard assessment, wildlife analysis, forestry inventory, ecological modeling, among others. The main objectives are to: 1) briefly introduce the lidar sensors, platforms, and data in the context of terrain and vegetation mapping; 2) present an overview of the key issues and workflows for terrain and vegetation mapping using lidar; 3) discuss in depth the state-of-the-art algorithms for mapping vegetation as detailed as at the individual level; 4) introduce area-based landscape-level vegetation mapping using airborne lidar and the common pitfalls in modeling; 5) present practical examples of using large-scale airborne lidar for mapping forest structural variables such as biomass and carbon and characterizing the uncertainty; 6) introduce the past and future satellite lidar systems and the relevant methods of terrain and vegetation mapping, discuss the future trends of lidar remote sensing, including new research opportunities, hot topics, and technical challenges.