Introduction to LiDAR Remote Sensing
by Cheng Wang, Xuebo Yang, Xiaohuan Xi, Sheng Nie, Pinliang Dong
Foreword
There is a consensus in the science and technology community on advancing Earth-related big data in support of sustainable development goals. Integrated analysis of the land, ocean, and atmosphere systems and human activities can provide multi-scale and multi-temporal information on Earth's environment and resources. LiDAR has become an indispensable tool for data acquisition due to its rapid, direct, and high-precision capabilities in acquiring three-dimensional geospatial data, and has become an important component of Earth-related big data. In the last decade, LiDAR systems have been launched into space, while lightweight airborne and mobile LiDAR systems have experienced rapid development, leading to explosive growth of three-dimensional ...
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