Detailed, up-to-date natural resource assessment information is increasingly important for quantitative resource management. Terrestrial LiDAR is a promising technique that could replace and/or enhance current natural resource assessment processes, specifically, Watercourse Crossings and Forest Resource Inventory. The FARO Focus X330 laser scanner was used for these applications under the direction of Woodlands North and the current status of work will be presented.
Adding the Third Dimension to Natural Resource Assessments: Watercourse Crossings & Forest Inventory Plots by Javed Iqbal
1. ADDING THE DIMENSION TO
NATURAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS:
WATERCOURSE CROSSINGS &
FOREST INVENTORY PLOTS
Javed Iqbal
FARO 3D Documentation Conference
October 15th 2014
Bruce Nielsen
2. Who are we?
• Woodlands North, established in 2000
• Professional consulting services to energy and forestry sectors
specializing in far upstream and final field work and all supporting
geomatics
• 23 professional, technical, and administrative staff
• Main office in Edmonton, field office in Whitecourt, AAllbbeerrttaa,, CCaannaaddaa
• Members in the CAPF, CAPFT, ASPB
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8. Road Wellsite Crossings
• Regulatory
submissions
• Crossing
assessment
• Crossing
replacement
• Construction
monitoring
• Prescribe and
treat
• Reforestation
• Invasive species
• DSA & rec. cert.
application
• No entry
analysis
• Rill and gully
erosion
• Mass wasting
• Washouts
• Sediment
control plans
• Bioengineering
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9. Collection Management Analysis
• Spatial/non
spatial
• Predictive
• Inferential
• Adaptive
• Statistical
• Decision
Support Systems
• Geodatabase
• dbase
construction
• dbase
management
• Graphic user
interface
• ArcPad
interface
• Hand-held
device
• Digital & Spatial
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10. LIDAR
Optical remote-sensing technique
that uses laser light to densely sample
the surface of the earth, producing
highly accurate x,y,z measurements
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vegetation?
57. 57 Any tool/method to convert distance
(x,y,z) from reference scan to UTM
Coordinates?
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Any tool/method to extract
Digital Elevation Model with out
point classification?
59. TAKE HOME MESSAGES
• Terrestrial LiDAR provide promising technology for
documentation
• Safe
• Accuracy
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• It’s the future for resource inventory
• Potential comes with lots of limitations
• Line of sight
• Weather
• Processing
• Automated means of extracting useful parameters
needs to be formulated
60. THANK YOU !
For more information about the Spatial Analysis, R & D:
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Javed Iqbal, PhD, Manager GIS, Research & Development
Woodlands North
18136 – 102 Ave., Edmonton, Canada T5S 1S7
Phone: (780) 488-1945
Cell: (780) 226-9151
Email: javed@woodlandsnorth.co
For more information about Woodlands North Projects:
Bruce Nielsen, RPF, Principal Forester
Woodlands North
4012 41 Avenue, Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada T7S 0A9
Phone: (780) 706-2188
Cell: (780) 720-2402
Email: bruce@woodlandsnorth.co