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A series of three images: top is a gray shaded relief, middle is a black and white contour image, and the bottom is a digital elevation model in shades of red with darker red indicating higher elevation.

Overview of Elevation Data

This article reviews some of terminology and types of elevation based datasets available to GIS.

Screenshot showing contours in brown and green in ArcGIS Pro.

How To Create Contours in ArcGIS Pro from LIDAR Data

This ArcGIS Pro tutorial shows how to add LIDAR data from the National Map to ArcGIS Pro and create topography contours.

Building structure captured beneath tree canopy. Image: VeriDaaS, used with permission.

Next-generation Lidar: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees

by GIS Contributor

Next-generation Geiger-mode lidar’s high density and multi-angle looks offer a better chance of seeing through tree foliage to map what’s underneath.

Geiger mode 3DEP lidar point cloud over Chicago, IL from 3DEP Project USGS Lidar Point Cloud IL 4County Cook 2017. Image: Jason Stoker. USGS, Public domain.

Geiger-mode Lidar and Geospatial Data Acquisition

by GIS Contributor

Paul Nash discuses Geiger-mode lidar and its use in geospatial data acquisition.

The Earth Archive Project and 3D Mapping the Earth

by Mark Altaweel

The Earth Archive Project, launched in 2019, is a project that will provide a detailed 3D map of the entire Earth.

Understanding LiDAR Technologies

by GIS Contributor

This article presents insights from the new IDTechEx report titled “Lidar 2020-2030” IDTechEx report.

3 Ways Geospatial Data is Changing the Way We Manage the Environment Around Us

by GIS Contributor

Dr. Michael Flaxman, director of Geodesign Technologies and Geospatial Community Advocate for OmniSci, presents three example of how newly available geospatial data is being leveraged.

First Data from NASA’s GEDI Program to 3D Map Forests

by Mark Altaweel

The first set of data that have returned have demonstrated GEDI is able to measure density of forests far better than previous satellite missions.

How Collecting LiDAR is Being Supported by the USGS 3D Elevation Program

by GIS Contributor

Quantum Spatial (QSI) is currently working on more than two dozen LiDAR collection projects in support of the 3DEP. Here’s a look at three of the projects QSI has worked on in 2018.

Seeing the World with Data: 3D LiDAR with MapD and Uber’s deck.gl

by GIS Contributor

Dipti Kothari, an intern with MapD, has developed an open source project that uses LiDAR to create a 3D visualization of tree coverage around buildings and the impact of rising sea levels on buildings on Jekyll Island, GA.