1st March 2007, 07:42 PM
I too have seen some fantastic results from LIDAR, but it has to emphasised that LIDAR does not take photographs, it records data and the way the data is manipulated is what produces the result (for comparison imagine what a Time Team geo-fizz survey looks like in reality and then once it has been 'filtered' for presentation to the viewing public).
For an explanation of how this works I have found this link, which explains fairly concisely how a team from Leicester I think, used LIDAR to strip away a heavily forested Balkan hillside to discover the bedrock below. Depending on the algorithm used I guess you could strip away or leave behind any amount of 'ground cover'.
http://www.le.ac.uk/geography/research/p...LiDAR.html
For an explanation of how this works I have found this link, which explains fairly concisely how a team from Leicester I think, used LIDAR to strip away a heavily forested Balkan hillside to discover the bedrock below. Depending on the algorithm used I guess you could strip away or leave behind any amount of 'ground cover'.
http://www.le.ac.uk/geography/research/p...LiDAR.html