GEOG660

Prerequisite: GEOG652. Recommended: GEOG656 and GEOG654. Credit only granted for: GEOG660 or GEOG788G. Formerly: GEOG788G. Lidar, also known as laser scanning, is an active remote sensing tool that can produce high-resolution point clouds. Lidar is being applied to problems such as terrain modeling, biomass estimation, change detection, feature extraction, and measuring tree canopy. Topics covered are fundamentals of lidar, current developments in lidar technology, and different applications where lidar is being used. Students will get hands-on learning about lidar data management, processing, and analysis. Students must pay a $40 lab fee.