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Airborne Vegetation Canopy Lidar - Australian Developments. Presentation to CEOS LPV Sub-group Special Workshop on LAI ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy June 7-8, 2001 Ian Barton , CSIRO Marine Research Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Under development at CSIRO EOC
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Airborne Vegetation Canopy Lidar - Australian Developments Presentation to CEOS LPV Sub-group Special Workshop on LAI ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy June 7-8, 2001 Ian Barton , CSIRO Marine Research Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Under development at CSIRO EOC A Business Plan has been completed Commercial development has commenced Details can be found on the WWW at the following URLs Australian VCL
EOC VCL URLs • http://www.eoc.csiro.au • http://www.eoc.csiro.au/vsis/lidhome.html • http://www.eoc.csiro.au/vis/backgnd.backgnd.htm • Other links available at these sites • Also note link to the proposed NASA satellite VCL system at http://www.geog.umd.edu/vcl/
Summary:CSIRO research is seeking to harness lidar technology to significantly enhance our capacity to describe the status and dynamics of vegetation from forest stand to continental scales. This will have immediate applications in forestry, land cover management and global change research. By using data from various sources, some Lidar trials, simulation and our base of experience, we have identified how these tools can be put to work.CSIRO commissioned a business plan development to assess the commercial potential for Lidar based forest mapping and is now seeking partners to see systems built in Australia.