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  • Featured project examples and technical writing are now in one place.
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Featured Projects

A few projects that show the style of LiDAR and mapping work shared throughout this site.

Blog

Technical notes on LiDAR workflows, research, and field results

Forestry, LiDAR, AI April 2026

Seeing a Forest Through Its Point Clouds

Paper excerpts on forestry LiDAR and registration, plus an AI expansion on measurement through operational shifts.

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

Two Years in Points

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

Digital Picking: 3D tree stem point grabs
Research Dec 2016

Digital Picking: 3D tree stem point grabs

Merged course write-up with original figures: alpha-shapes, Voronoi densities, and polynomial masks on TLS from the Grinnell grove.