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National Lidar Initiative Meeting (2008) bar

Agenda

Purpose: To foster discussions and organization on the potential of collecting a national baseline elevation dataset and other national derivatives using lidar remote sensing technology.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Welcome / USGS and Lidar	Mark Meyers
National Lidar and the National Land Imaging Program	Bruce Quirk
Synopsis of the First National Lidar Strategy Meeting	Jason Stoker
"Lidar for the Nation" - A National Business Plan	David Gisclair
National Scale Lidar Dataset Collection: Sanity Check	Qassim A. Abdullah
The State of the Profession	John Palatiello
The Oregon Lidar Consortium: COLLECTING large areas of high resolution data, why point density matters	Ian Madin
PAMAP and NLI- a state perspective	Jay Parrish
Update on the Ohio State Imagery Project (OSIP)	Bob Brinkman
Overview of the NSF National Center for Airborne LASER Mapping (NCALM).	Juan Carlos Fernandez Diaz
Enabling Access to Community Lidar Topography	Christopher Crosby
Lidar and the NSDI	Donald Cooke
IFSAR-Lidar DEM Comparison: Competitive or Complimentary Technologies?	Lorraine Tighe
Best Practices for Large-scale Lidar Projects Using Multiple Sensors	Jamie Young
The National Map and Lidar Data	George Lee
OPEN MIC- contributions, suggestions, questions from the audience
Poster Session / Social

Thursday, May 22, 2008
NOAA Lidar	David B. Zilkoski
USACE National Coastal Mapping Program	Jennifer Wozencraft
Determining Vegetation Structure Using Small-footprint, Waveform-resolving Lidar	Amar Nayegandhi
Analysis of Lidar Elevation Data for Improved Delineation of Lands Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise	Dean Gesch
Geodesy, the Geoid and the Accuracy of Airborne Lidar	Roberto Gutierrez
Forestry Applications of Lidar in the Interior Northwest	Andrew Hudak
Accuracy Assessment of Mountainous Terrain	Christopher Gard
An Implementation Concept for National Lidar: High Altitude, Long Range Mapping	Dave Harding
LVIS, a Wide-Swath, Full-Waveform Laser Altimeter: Demonstrated Accuracy from 8-10 km Altitude over Land, Vegetation, Ice, and Water	Bryan Blair
A High Altitude, Photon-Counting, 3D Imaging Lidar Operating at Megapixels per Second	John J. Degnan
A National-Scale Lidar Decision Support Model	Jason Stoker
Designing, Implementing, and Managing QA/QC Workflows on Large, Multi-Organizational, Multi-Year Lidar Data Collection Programs	Martin Flood
A New Framework for Accuracy Assessment of Lidar Data and Derived Elevation Models	Karen Schuckman
OPEN MIC - Any last minute contributions / suggestions

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