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Tina Cary, PhD, is president of Cary and Associates.The full market report, “The Global Market for Airborne Lidar Systems and Services,” ($2,995) may be ordered at www.caryandassociates.com.
The technology to collect LiDAR data from aircraft has been commercially available since the mid-1990s. As this technology has become more widespread and more familiar, it has been increasingly used to measure topography and create digital elevation models.