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Additional Lidar and Remote Sensing Resources

Disclaimer 

These resources are provided for reference only.  Note that reference or mention to any products, services, processes, or websites/hypertext links contained anywhere in this book should not be deemed or construed as an endorsement or recommendation by the authors.

Printed Resources for Remote Sensing

Campbell, James B. and Randolph H. Wynne. 2011. Introduction to Remote Sensing – 5th Edition. The Guilford Press. New York, NY. 677 p.

Fukuchi, T. and Fujii, T. (eds). 2005. Laser Remote Sensing. CRC Press, Boca Raton pp 912

Habib, A. F. 2010. Airborne LIDAR Mapping. Chapter 22. in Handbook of Geospatial Technology and Analysis. 2nd ed. John D. Bossler, James B. Campbell, Robert B. McMaster, Chris Rizos, Eds. London: Taylor and Francis. 854 p.

Heidemann, H. K. 2014. Lidar base specification (ver. 1.2, November 2014): U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 11, chap. B4, 67 p. with appendixes, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/tm11B4.

Jensen, John R. 2004. Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective3rd Edition. Pearson. Upper Saddle River, NJ. 379 p.

Parece, T.E. and Campbell, J.B. 2015. Land use/land cover monitoring and geospatial technologies: An overview. In Advances in Watershed Science and Assessment. T. Younos and T.E. Parece, eds. Book Series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 33; Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-14212-8_1

Printed Resources for Lidar in ArcGIS Desktop

Keranen, Kathryn and Robert Kolvoord. 2015. Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS and Lidar, A Workbook. ESRI Press. 200 p.

On-line Resources

U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/lidar.html

U.S. Geological Survey:
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-lidar-data-and-where-can-i-download-it?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products

American Geosciences Institute:
https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/faq/what-lidar-and-what-it-used

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS):
https://www.asprs.org/divisions-committees/lidar-division

Printed or Online Resources for ArcGIS®Pro

Lidar in ArcGIS Pro
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/las-dataset/use-lidar-in-arcgis-pro.htm

Toolboxes
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/projects/connect-to-a-toolbox.htm

Geodatabases
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/geodatabases/overview/types-of-geodatabases.htm

Symbolization methods
http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/mapping/layer-properties/data-classification-methods.htm

Resampling methods
http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/imagery/resample-function.htm

Spatial Analyst tools
http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/tool-reference/spatial-analyst/complete-listing-of-spatial-analyst-tools.htm

Raster functions
http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/imagery/band-arithmetic-function.htm

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