XXIII International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Congress http://www.isprs.org/ Summer School – 5 th – 11 th July, 2016 Telč ABSTRACT OF THE TEACHER MARTIN ISENBURG Wednesday 6 th July, Thursday – 7 th July LLS LiDAR quality checking, processing, derivatives, full waveform Complete LiDAR processing pipeline: Part 1, Quality Checking: the LAS format, visual inspection, LAS file validation, flightline overlap and alignment, pulse density and spacing calculations Part 2, LiDAR preparation: compression, spatial indexing, tiling, buffering, noise removal, ground classification, building and vegetation classification. Part 3, LiDAR product generation: DTM / DSM, intensity grids, building outlines, contour line generation Part 4, forestry metrics, CHM rasters, pitfree and spikefree algorithms, intro to full waveform LiDAR Dr. Isenburg received his PhD in 2004 from UNC Chapel Hill. He was first exposed to LiDAR as a postdoc at UC Berkeley constructing seamless Delaunay triangulations for billions of points. Dr. Isenburg is a vocal advocate of open LiDAR formats. He is a member of the LAS Working Group and provides the opensource LASzip compressor. His company rapidlasso GmbH licenses the popular LAStools LiDAR processing software that is widely known for its blazing speeds and high productivity. Combining robust algorithms with efficient I/O and clever memory management LAStools achieve high throughput for data sets containing billions of points. The suite is heavily used in the commercial sector, government agencies, research labs, and educational institutions alike filtering, tiling, rasterizing, triangulating, converting, clipping, quality checking, ... TeraBytes of LiDAR every day.