Friday, January 7, 2011

LiDAR Equipment to Enhance Production of Shoreline Charting and IOCM Products

NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS) recently accepted delivery of a RIEGL USA CP680i-D Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and LiDAR-Acquisition System. The new system will allow NGS' Remote Sensing Division to extract shoreline for Nautical Charting more quickly and accurately, improving the value of these services. The system will be operated on NOAA's King Air aircraft and will support emergency response, shoreline mapping, airport obstruction surveying, and Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping projects. For more information, contact Jonathan Neuhaus.