Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar in ArcGIS

Through 20 step-by-step tutorials, gain the knowledge to understand, manage, analyze, and create immersive 3D products using lidar data.

Throughout Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar, you'll discover a range of essential lidar skills and best practices for preparing and storing data, sharing methods, and rendering techniques. Each chapter presents a bite-sized, standalone tutorial with easy-to-follow steps, accompanied by tips and considerations that enhance your understanding of the underlying concepts.

Using 20 step-by-step tutorials you will explore how to:

• Assess lidar data properties and correct common errors
• Visualize lidar data and convert between data types
• Create final data products and maps
• Classify lidar data
• Assess point spacing and density
• Use constraints
• Apply manual and automated classification
• Calculate volume and other measurements
• Create 3D surfaces such as digital terrain models and digital surface models
• Extract features such as trees and buildings
• Create viewsheds
• Perform shadow analysis
• Apply raster functions
• Leverage deep learning

Whether you're new to lidar or looking to expand your skills, Top 20 Essential Skills for Lidar provides a practical and accessible resource for exploring lidar data sources, working in 3D, and creating data-driven outputs.