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Lee, Jordan

The advent of photography has altered how many people around the world complete a task or frame their memories. The ability to frame an image and perserve it to be analyzed in another time has evolved over the years and the forestry sector itself has see the wide spectrum of technology flow through it. Aerial film photography was the paramount and technological marvel that allowed foresters to view a landscape from a vantage point that gave a plethora of information that could be used to make appropriate management plans. However, as time elapsed, digital imaging with the use of digital sensors allowed images to be stored on hard disk drives to be viewed electronically rather than having to be developed and processed. This rapidly sped up turn over time and coincidentally allowed researchers to save time and money capturing the same images from film. The timing however was overlapped and it took much advancement in digital imaging to produce the same results as film photography with regards to resolution and sharpness. The introduction to LIDAR opens ups a whole new complimentary perspective on aerial imaging due to its ability to scan the landscape with speed while outputting quantitative data. LIDAR works congruently with aerial photography and this ability to hybridize maps using LIDAR data gives a new dimension to how they can be viewed graphically.

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University of British Columbia. FRST 497

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0075601

Forestry, Faculty of

Unreviewed

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