Report of the U.S. Geological Survey Lidar Workshop Sponsored by the Land Remote Sensing Program and Held in St
Report of the U.S. Geological Survey Lidar Workshop Sponsored by the Land Remote Sensing Program and held in St. Petersburg, FL, November 2002 By Michael Crane1, Tonya Clayton2, Ellen Raabe2, Jason Stoker3, Larry Handley4, Gerald Bawden5, Karen Morgan2, Vivian Queija6 Open File Report 2004-1456 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey 2004 1 U.S. Geological Survey, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001 2 U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Coastal & Watershed Studies, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 3 S.A.I.C., EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001 4 U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA 70506 5 U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Discipline, Sacramento, CA 95819 6 U.S. Geological Survey, Northwest Geographic Science Office, Seattle, WA 98104 CONTENTS KEY WORDS……………………………………………………………………… 6 ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………….. 6 INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………. 7 BACKGROUND…………………………………………………………………... 7 PLENARY AND BREAKOUT SESSIONS……………………………………… 8 PLENARY 1 – CURRENT AND FUTURE LIDAR TECHNOLOGY…. 9 Characteristics of Airborne Lidar Ranging Systems………….. 9 Aircraft Position and Attitude Determination…………………… 15 Complementing Lidar Data With Spectral Imagery……….….. 17 PLENARY 2 - LIDAR APPLICATIONS WITHIN USGS………………. 24 BREAKOUT SESSION 2………………………………………………… 25 PLENARY 3 - CALIBRATION AND ACCURACY…………………….. 29 Calibration…………………………………………………………. 29 Laser Rangefinder Error…………………………………………. 29 GPS Position Errors……………………………………………… 30 INS Orientation Error…………………………………………….
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