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April 2018
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
ASPRS
NEWS
Editor-In-Chief
Alper Yilmaz, Ph.D.,
Associate Editors
Photogrammetry
Rongjun Qin, Ph.D.,
Michael Yang, Ph.D.,
Petra Helmholz, Ph.D.,
Bo Wu, Ph.D.,
Change Detection Remote Sensing
Clement Mallet, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing
Vasit Sagan, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing—Vegetation
Jose M. Pena, Ph.D.,
Hyperspectral
Xin Huang, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing/GIS—Agriculture
Prasad Thenkabail, Ph.D.,
Lidar/GIS/Photogrammetry
Ruisheng Wang, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing/Pattern Analysis
Desheng Liu, Ph.D.,
GIS/Pattern Recognition/Mapping
Valérie Gouet-Brunet, Ph.D.,
Photogrammetry/Machine Learning
Yury Vizilter, Ph.D.,
Thermal Sensing/Photogrammetry/Machine Learning
Dorota Iwaszczuk, Ph.D.,
Remote Sensing Change Assessment/
Risk Analysis/Image IProcessing/Ecology
Qunming Wang, Ph.D.,
Optical and Active Microwave Remote Sensing Data
Analysis/Thematic Mapping/Multi Temporal Change
Detection
Filiz Sunar, Ph.D.,
Technical Editor
Michael S. Renslow,
Highlight Article Editor
Jie Shan, Ph.D.,
Contributing Editors
Grids & Datums Column
Clifford J. Mugnier,
Book Reviews
Sagar Deshpande,
Mapping Matters Column
Qassim Abdullah,
Sector Insight
Amr Abd-Elrahman,
Lucia Lovison-Golob, Ph.D.,
William C. Wright, Ph.D.,
Project Management Column
Raquel Charrois,
Assistant Director — Publications
Rae Kelley,
Electronic Publications Manager/Graphic Artist
Matthew Austin,
Circulation Manager
Priscilla Weeks,
Advertising Sales Representative
Bill Spilman,
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NEW ASPRS RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT TOPICS FOR
ASSURING GEOMETRIC QUALITY
OF LIDAR DATA
T
he new ASPRS Research and Development
Topics for Assuring Geometric Quality of Lidar
Data document was approved for release by the
ASPRS Board of Directors on 4 February 2018. The
goal of the new guideline document is to provide
efforts that are necessary for comprehensively
quantifying the geometric quality of lidar data.
The readers who want to participate in this
area or have questions should send comments to
.
S
ummary
Lidar has become the technology of choice for collecting three dimensional data
of the earth’s surface. Standards that ensure geometric quality and enable metric
measurement from lidar data must be applied consistently across the industry.
This also requires that quality assurance processes are applied consistently
across the industry in a transparent manner. The ASPRS and the U.S. Geological
Survey formed a Calibration/Validation Working Group (WG), operating under
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