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Leicester Lidar Research Unit (LLRU)
An interdisciplinary research group working towards the development of techniques, methods and applications of Lidar remote sensing and image interpretation.
Members
- Dr Kevin Tansey (Director, Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
- Dr Nick Tate (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
- Dr Dickson Cunningham (Department of Geology, University of Leicester)
- Prof Heiko Balzter (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
- Ms Cici Alexander (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
- Mr Stephen Grebby (Department of Geology, University of Leicester)
- Dr Jing Li (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
- Mr. Nick Selmes (Department of Geography, University of Wales, Swansea)
- Mr Cutberto Paredes Hernández (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
- Dr Jon Naden (British Geological Survey, UK)
- Dr Anthony Denniss (Infoterra Ltd, UK)
- Mr Andrew Anstee (Infoterra Ltd, UK)
- Dr Sarah Smith-Voysey (OS Research Fellow, Newcastle University)
- Dr Graham Ferrier (Department of Geography, University of Hull)
- Dr Andrej Gosar (Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia)
Projects
- Application of airborne Lidar to mapping seismogenic faults in forested mountainous terrain in Slovenia (Cunningham, Grebby, Gosar, Tansey)
- Automatic 3-D modelling of vegetation from laser scanner (Alexander, Tansey, Smith-Voysey)
3-D Visualization of OS MasterMap® Using Height Data from Lidar (Alexander, Smith-Voysey, Tate, Alexander, Tansey) - Application of airborne Lidar to fault mapping, structural analysis, and identification of fracture controlled mineralisation, Slovenia and Cyprus (Grebby, Cunningham, Naden, Tansey)
- Terrestrial laser scanning for forest mensuration (Tansey, Selmes, Anstee, Tate, Denniss)
- Modelling and Prediction of GPS availability and multipath with Lidar DSM and OS master map (Li)
- The use of Lidar data for improved GPS height aiding computation - GPS/GIS integration (Li)
