http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-010 
A new last minute addition to the International LiDAR Mapping Forum conference program will include two presentations on how LiDAR is being used in Haiti to assess the damage from the recent earthquake and the future probability of subsequent earthquakes.
Imagery of the region damaged by the M 7 Haiti earthquake, including high-resolution photography and airborne LiDAR, has revealed a variety of ground failure that resulted from shaking. Surprisingly, the Enriquillo Fault seems to have not ruptured at the ground surface, so the negative result obtained from imagery has significant implications. The USGS issued a statement, based on imagery analysis, that because it is clear that the rupture of the Enriquillo Fault was clearly farther west than Port-au-Prince, and because rupture was buried deep on the fault, there is a significant risk of not only regular aftershocks, but also the threat of a subsequent large event that could occur even closer to Port-au-Prince. The probability of one or more subsequent earthquakes of M 7 or greater increased by about 3% for the 30 days following 21 January 2010. Although this is a low probability, it would be a potentially very high impact event. High-resolution imagery was crucial to this assessment." - source: www.lidarmap.org
The XXXVIII Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
Typical CAA topics include:
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"The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is the first true-color, high-spatial-resolution image of the seventh continent. It is constructed from nearly 1100 individually selected Landsat-7 ETM+ scenes. Each image was orthorectified and adjusted for geometric, sensor and illumination variations to a standardized, almost seamless surface reflectance product. Mosaicing to avoid clouds produced a high quality, nearly cloud-free benchmark data set of Antarctica for the International Polar Year from images collected primarily during 1999–2003...."
I like movies, one of my favorite is “The Thing” in the sci-fi/horror category. The story plays on an Antarctic research station. The man can feel on this place the weakness, it is impossible to get help. If I could choose between ice and desert, like extreme places on the earth, I would like to travel to Antarctica. Darkness and nothing (wintertime)…. It is peaceful!
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Archiving is today central to nearly all aspects of Cultural Heritage Management.
Archives (Archaeological excavations, libraries, documents, data collections,...) are important data repositories.
The data contained in correctly treated and accessible archives makes wide and varied information available.
How can archiving in all its aspects best promote knowledge about and support the protection and conservation of cultural heritage?
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Hallo everybody,
Wednesday finished the ISPRS Laserscanning 2009 in Paris.
Thank you, congress was very professional!
160 people were from 25 countries at the workshop. 31 presenters, extra 4 company presentations and 27 posters were in the program.
31 presenters were from 13 countries. Iran and Greece cancelled.
(Country, number of oral presentation)
Austria | 3 |
Canada | 3 |
Finland | 4 |
France | 4 |
Germany | 6 |
Greece | 1 |
Iran | 1 |
Italy | 2 |
Japan | 1 |
Netherlands | 3 |
Swiss | 1 |
Spain | 1 |
UK | 1 |
Two areas (forestry, urban) are very popular in the LiDAR researches, where the newest papers were presented on the week.
I think, the most interesting topics were:
Automatic classification and feature extraction
TLS calibration
Photogrammetry and LiDAR combination
Analysis and visualisation with Voxel
Usage of LiDAR Intensity information
I want to write more details on the next days about these topics and the papers.
