The Utility of Lidar — Flood Prevention and Revelations from a Maya Settlement

Two lidar imaging use cases are explored. In segment one, the
Texas Water Development Board’s Joey Thomas and Saul Nuccitelli
explain how the organization uses topobathymetric lidar to help
prevent flooding along the South Llano River. Later, the
collaborative team of Kathryn Reese-Taylor, Felix Kupprat, and
Juan Carlos Fernandez Diaz employs the method to investigate
beneath the Calakmul biosphere’s forest canopy.


 


“All Things Photonics” is produced by Photonics Media and airs
biweekly, on Tuesdays.