Airborne Topo-Bathymetric Lidar Combined with Thermal Imaging for Fish Habitat Studies in RiversResearchers at Nova Scotia Community College’s Applied Geomatics Research Group have been using the airborne Leica Chiroptera 4X topo-bathymetric lidar sensor for nearly a decade and have surveyed coastal, riverine and lake environments. They have concentrated on mapping submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV).  Topo-bathy lidar data of rivers provides an opportunity for improved flood hazard h...

Dr. Tim Webster

Speaker

The United States’ National Geodetic Survey (NGS) plans to modernize their National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) in 2025, including adopting a new dynamic geometric reference (the North American Terrestrial Reference Frame of 2022 (NATRF2022)) and a new geoid-based height system (the North American-Pacific Geopotential Datum of 2022 (NAPGD2022)). To ensure continued geospatial referencing compatibility, the Canadian Geodetic Survey (CGS) plans to modernize the Canadian Spatial Reference Sy...

Catherine Robin

Speaker

This keynote presentation will revisit some of the fundamentals behind lidar that influence the precision and detail the systems produce. The laser ranging systems that are used strongly influence how the lidar system works and factors including: wavelength, beam divergence, pulse width and pulse repetition frequency will be reviewed and discussed. Most airborne topographic lidars use a 1064 nm Near-Infrared laser, while topo-bathymetric lidar systems deploy both a NIR laser and a green laser...

Dr. Tim Webster

Speaker