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Developments in Airborne Lidar

In Issue28 by FIEA

Airborne Lidar has revolutionised area-wide 3D data for topography, vegetation, buildings and infrastructure. This article is a good overview of the evolution of sensors and aircraft technology. It also highlights …

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New bushfire risk mapping method

In Issue28 by FIEA

University of Wollongong bushfire management researcher Owen Price has developed a new method for mapping bushfire risk based on past fire patterns which has the potential to change bushfire prevention …

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Sensor Fusion for Precision Agriculture

In Issue28 by FIEA

Precision agriculture has considerably benefited from the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, often combined with active ranging sensors like Lidar to gather information from underneath the crops, but existing systems …

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HRIS and a Trillion Trees

In Issue28 by FIEA

Precision forestry technology is moving forward at an amazing pace, with advancements in global positioning systems, remote sensing platforms and data sources, cloud geospatial engines, mobile GIS data collectors and …