What is LiDAR Technology
Credit: 10 PDH Hours
Course Fee: $90.00
77 pages
How it Work!
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Course Summary:
Lidar has become an established method for collecting very dense and accurate elevation data across landscapes, shallow-water areas, and project sites. This active remote sensing technique is similar to radar but uses laser light pulses instead of radio waves. Lidar is typically “flown” or collected from planes where it can rapidly collect points over large areas (Figure 2-1). Lidar is also collected from ground-based stationary and mobile platforms. These collection techniques are popular within the surveying and engineering communities because they are capable of producing extremely high accuracies and point densities, thus permitting the development of precise, realistic, three-dimensional representations of railroads, roadways, bridges, buildings, breakwaters, and other shoreline structures.
Learning Objective:
Lidar, as a remote sensing technique, has several advantages. Chief among them are high accuracies, high point density, large coverage areas, and the ability of users to resample areas quickly and efficiently. This creates the ability to map discrete changes at a very high resolution, cover large areas uniformly and very accurately, and produce rapid results. In this course we will learn how LiDAR works.
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Course Content
Course Author: NOAA
Certificate of completion of the course
This course comes with a multiple-choice quiz. You can view the quiz and take the quiz if you are logged in your account. You can take the quiz for this online PDH course as many times until passed. The passing grade is 70% and above. After you pass the quiz simply follow the page, to pay for the course and print your certificate instantly. A copy of the certificate and receipt for this course will always be in your account.
This online PDH course can also be used as a continuing education course for the following.
Architects
PE Civil Engineers
PE Structural Engineers
PE Environmental Engineers
CE Contractors
Land Surveyors
