Monday, March 30, 2009

LIDAR


Light Detection and Ranging is an optical remote sensing technologay that measures different properties of dispersed light to find range or other information of a distant target. The difference between lidar and radar is that lidar uses shorter wavelenths of the electromagnetic spectrum, generally close to infrared.
Here is a LIDAR image of lower manhattan.
http://lidar.cr.usgs.gov/

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