Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar in ArcGIS - by Christopher P Caird (Paperback)

About the Book

With 20 step-by-step tutorials, Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar helps you understand, manage, analyze, and create immersive 3D products using lidar data.

Book Synopsis

Through 20 step-by-step tutorials, gain the knowledge to understand, manage, analyze, and create immersive 3D products using lidar data.

Throughout Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar, you'll discover a range of essential lidar skills and best practices for preparing and storing data, sharing methods, and rendering techniques. Each chapter presents a bite-sized, standalone tutorial with easy-to-follow steps, accompanied by tips and considerations that enhance your understanding of the underlying concepts.

Using 20 step-by-step tutorials you will explore how to:

• Assess lidar data properties and correct common errors
• Visualize lidar data and convert between data types
• Create final data products and maps
• Classify lidar data
• Assess point spacing and density
• Use constraints
• Apply manual and automated classification
• Calculate volume and other measurements
• Create 3D surfaces such as digital terrain models and digital surface models
• Extract features such as trees and buildings
• Create viewsheds
• Perform shadow analysis
• Apply raster functions
• Leverage deep learning

Whether you're new to lidar or looking to expand your skills, Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar provides a practical and accessible resource for exploring lidar data sources, working in 3D, and creating data-driven outputs.

From the Back Cover

Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar guides you through three major themes using twenty step-by-step tutorials. In this book, you will discover how to understand the lidar data you have, how to manage and analyze it, and how to create immersive 3D products.

You will learn best practices for preparing and storing data, analyzing, and rendering. These bite-sized, standalone chapters with easy-to-follow steps will demystify lidar fundamentals and empower you to explore lidar data. Each chapter builds on a short scenario and includes tips and considerations that guide and shape your understanding of the underlying concepts. This book is accessible to everyone who wants to explore lidar data sources, work in 3D, and create compelling data driven outputs.

Chris Caird is an Esri Advantage Program Advisor and Technical Consultant in Esri's Professional Services division. He works on Enterprise GIS, imagery, oriented imagery, and provides lidar expertise for the transportation industry from the Denver, Colorado Regional Office.