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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Greetings, GIS users,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Registration is now open for the 2<sup>nd</sup> LiDAR Symposium. Use this link to register:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><a href="http://bit.ly/SymposiumBytheSea2019">http://bit.ly/SymposiumBytheSea2019</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">South Slough Visitor Center – Friday, Sept. 27, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">What Can LiDAR Do For You</span></u></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">?</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">
Increase your awareness of the multiple applications that a single LiDAR data set can yield. Melissa Christie, Quantum Spatial, Reno, Nevada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">Capturing Topo-bathymetric LiDAR to Understand Eelgrass Decline in Morro Bay National Estuary, California</span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">
Demonstrates the use of topo-bathymetric LiDAR to create a digital elevation model in a coastal bay. Cassie Meigs, Quantum Spatial, Corvallis, Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">Study of the Hooskanaden Slide Using LiDAR Technology</span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">
Highway engineers used terrestrial, mobile, and aerial LiDAR from drones to redesign a stretch of Oregon’s scenic coastal highway between Brookings and Gold Beach following a massive slide. Audrey McHugh-Britton, Oregon Department of Transportation, Salem,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">Inland Riverine Topo-Bathymetric LiDAR Surveys</span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">
The latest advances, a historical perspective, and an overview of a project to monitor the replenishment of the Elwha River estuary and the coastline using LiDAR. Carol Lockhart, Woolpert, Inc., Hillsboro, Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">Monitoring Fish Habitat in Large Streams Using LiDAR and Boat-mounted Sonar</span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">
Oregon biologists are combining LiDAR with sonar in large rivers to monitor habitat. Morgan Davies, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Corvallis, Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">Enhancing Classified LiDAR LAS Files Using ArcGIS Tools – motivations and resultant products</span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">
When LiDAR isn’t working for you, look for a work-around that can make it better. Kevin Ramey, Oregon Department of Transportation, Portland, Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">Unexpected Uses of LiDAR in Transportation</span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">
In collecting biennial LiDAR images of state highways, Oregon’s Department of Transportation finds the data often proves useful for more projects than originally intended. Rhonda K. Dodge, Oregon Department of Transportation, Salem, Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">Mobile LiDAR Program at ODOT</span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif"> Explore the
challenges and benefits of collecting mobile LiDAR data along Oregon’s highways.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">LiDAR Products and Services Available From NOAA’s Digital Coast</span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Digital Coast website provides downloadable LiDAR data, an online LiDAR Data Viewer and related training to help communities address coastal issues. Matt Pendleton, NOAA Office For Coastal Management,
Charleston, South Carolina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">Use of PhoDAR collected via UAS/Drone to assess canopy cover in timber harvest units</span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif">
The Bureau of Land Management is using drones to collect aerial imagery and measure forest canopy cover quickly and accurately. John Guetterman, BLM Medford District, Medford, Oregon.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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