Dan Walters forwarded this to me and I thought some of you might be interested. The University of Washington has been very active in the use of LiDAR for forest related analysis.

Have a FABULOUS Friday. Spring is definitely here, warm southerly breeze, fog rising from the snow and just a hint of rain!!
Crocuses and daffodils can't be far behind!!
Joe

From: David Alvarez <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:48 PM
Subject: [gis_info] April 17 #GeoBytes - FREE Using Lidar to Study Forests - ASPRS\CaGIS\GLIS
To:

Registration https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7233919359159070209

Natural resource managers are increasingly using airborne LiDAR to study forests to conduct inventories, assess habitat, study fires and fuels, monitor changes, and study ecological processes. This seminar will look at LiDAR's strengths and weaknesses compared to other remote sensing methods to measure forests across landscapes. We will cover how LiDAR measures forests and how managers can process LiDAR data to measure their forests. We will also cover how to work with a LiDAR vendor to acquire data for forest studies and how to relate LiDAR measures with forest measurements gathered on the ground. In many cases, LiDAR data is gathered for non-forest studies (such as studying ground morphology);we will discuss how to use these common data sets to also study forests.

Van R. Kane, PhD, at the University of Washington has been using LiDAR data to study a diverse range of forests for nearly a decade. His work includes assisting managers to plan forest restorations, study the effects of fire on forests, measuring fuels, mapping forest biomass, and developing methods to study forests with LiDAR data.


Joseph Young
Executive Director
Maine GeoLibrary
SHS 145
51 Commerce Drive
Augusta, Maine 04333- 145
VP 207-624-2664
FAX 207-287-1131
[MaineGeoLibrary_Web_banner_JY]<http://lists.maine.edu/cgi/wa?A0=geolibrary-l>
Subscribe to our List Serve<http://lists.maine.edu/cgi/wa?A0=geolibrary-l> learn more about the GeoLibrary
http://lists.maine.edu/cgi/wa?A0=geolibrary-l


-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list Maine GeoNews (GEOLIBRARY-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all Maine GIS Users. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove your name and email address yourself at the this web address:

http://lists.maine.edu/cgi/wa?SUBED1=geolibrary-l&A=1

Or,you may also request that your name be removed by sending email to:

[log in to unmask]