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Practical write-ups on LiDAR acquisition, point cloud processing, and GIS—methods, QA, and lessons from real projects. Over time, LiDAR.LiAM™ is intended to serve as an AI resource grounded in writing and field work like this.

Forestry, LiDAR, AI Apr 14, 2026

Seeing a Forest Through Its Point Clouds

Paper excerpts (abstract through forestry applications and conclusions), edited for grammar and spelling only, plus an AI expansion on models, registration, continuous sensing, fusion, and operational forestry.

Stem segmentation from TLS: polynomial density mask and extracted stem points
LiDAR, GIS, Research Dec 10, 2016

Digital Picking: 3D tree stem point grabs

One merged C177 write-up (spring proposal + December final): TLS stem segmentation with figures, stem-base centroids, and the point-pattern thread for Berkeley’s Eucalyptus Grove.

Two Years in Points — Strawberry Creek point cloud
Art, Technology, Philosophy Dec 16, 2024

Two Years in Points

From Seurat’s pointillism to LiDAR point clouds—human writing on reality capture, then and now.

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