Laser Mapping Helps Archaeologists and City Planners

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And here:
http://www.research.ufl.edu/publications/explore/v07n1/terror.htm

Michael Sartori of TX 4:47PM October 24, 2012

Sorry Lucy but your comment is factually inaccurate.
The research group at the University of Florida which was the precursor to NCALM was in fact part of a partnership that flew and processed state-of-the-art LiDAR over the World Trade Center site just after 911. I was there as part of the UF team. A NOAA aircraft was used because no civilian aircraft were allowed to fly at that time. A loaner Optech ALTM was used because, oddly enough, you are correct in that the UF system was being repaired. Please see http://history.nasa.gov/presrep01/pages/doc.html

Michael Sartori of TX 4:43PM October 24, 2012

LiDAR is useful, but I don't understand why the National Science Foundation is funding a self-designated "national" center to collect data using old off-the-shelf equipment. NASA, NOAA and the USGS do it with up-to-date equipment.
The article is factually inaccurate. No LiDAR data, for example, of Ground Zero was taken by NCALM as claimed in the article. NCALM's LiDAR was being repaired at the time of 911. LiDAR data of the site was acquired by a private mapping company and analyzed by a number of Federal agencies and universities.

Lucy Jane of ID 7:22AM March 18, 2012

LiDAR is useful, but I don't understand why the National Science Foundation is funding a self-designated "national" center to collect data using old off-the-shelf equipment. NASA, NOAA and the USGS do it with up-to-date equipment.
The article is factually inaccurate. No LiDAR data, for example, of Ground Zero was taken by NCALM as claimed in the article. NCALM's LiDAR was being repaired at the time of 911. LiDAR data of the site was acquired by a private mapping company and analyzed by a number of Federal agencies and universities.

Lucy Jane of ID 7:22AM March 18, 2012

LiDAR is useful, but I don't understand why the National Science Foundation is funding a self-designated "national" center to collect data using old off-the-shelf equipment. NASA, NOAA and the USGS do it with up-to-date equipment.
The article is factually inaccurate. No LiDAR data, for example, of Ground Zero was taken by NCALM as claimed in the article. NCALM's LiDAR was being repaired at the time of 911. LiDAR data of the site was acquired by a private mapping company and analyzed by a number of Federal agencies and universities.

Lucy Jane of ID 7:20AM March 18, 2012