In an area of some nine square kilometres for which radar satellite data is available, they collected
laser scanning data from more than 40 plots, and integrated this data into a model for calculating the biomass.
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The laser scanning data collected from selected points does give significantly more precise results than the satellite radar,» notes Christian Berger, co-author of the study and head of the research project on which Victor Odipo's doctoral thesis is based.
Not exact matches
For the new
data, the group used
laser surface
scanning to produce 3D models of the hyoids.
The new work, published in Current Biology on July 6, 2017, and based on
data from 3D
laser scanning of plants, suggests there may be universal rules of logic governing branching growth across many biological systems.
For example, one aspect of the system uses
data gathered through
lasers that
scan the terrain, and then adjusts the suspension, fine - tuning it to more efficiently handle whatever surface it's driving on.
Laser scanning: I've operated Optech, Riegl, and Leica systems and am competent in processing
data from all of these.