MICRO-TERRAIN FEATURE EXTRACTION FROM NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF GRIDDED LIDAR DATA, U.S. Army Geospatial Center Featured Paper by S. Bruce Blundell and Randy Swanson High-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) created from small-footprint airborne Light Detection and …

Phoenix Fusion Center Automates Data Collection for National Infrastructure Protection Plan with Capturx, Adapx Dedicated to “Make Phoenix the Safest Major City” in the United States. Phoenix is one of the fastest growing US cities, home to 1.2 million …

AN ALGORITHM PREDICTING BUILDING ROOFTOP DISPLACEMENTS ON AERIAL PHOTOS USING THE 3D COORDINATES OF ROOFTOP AND THE LOCATION OF LENS, Louisiana State University Featured Paper by Young Yang and Carol J. Friedland A new algorithm for predicting building rooftop displacements in individual aerial photos …

DETECTION AND ROBUST ESTIMATION OF CYLINDER FEATURES IN POINT CLOUDS, Purdue University Featured Paper by Yun-Ting Su and James Bethel The objective of this work is to develop new methods for efficient automatic 3D modeling of existing …

A Case Study of the Trinity River Levees, Pacheco Koch Consulting Engineers The first decade of the twenty-first century has led or forced many in the surveying profession to adapt to and embrace the technological applications of …

MONITORING SCOTCH PINE INFESTED BY SIREX NOCTILIO USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA: A LABORATORY STUDY, State University of New York Featured Paper by Wenhua Zhang, Laura N. Calandra, Lindi J. Quackenbush, Jungho Im and Stephen A. Teale Sirex noctilio is an invasive insect native to Europe and …