Our friends at OpenDataNI have been busy securing some fantastic spatial data sets for public use. in particular LiDAR surface elevation data collected by various NI Government Departments over the last 12 years. I’ve covered LiDAR technology in a previous post showing how it…
Open Data and 3D Visualisation
Lorraine Barry, Geographical Information Scientist from the GIS Research and Teaching Unit at GAP comments on 3D local visualisation based on open source methods and open spatial data. Traditionally within a geographical information software system (GIS) modelling spatial features in 3D…
Aerial Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
To begin a series of posts about some of the mapping techniques we utilise at the Geographical Information Science (GIS) Research Unit here at SNBE, lets take a look at Aerial LiDAR. Aerial based Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has become…