Happy New Year

Lidar Sources (UK Commercial and Free)

I'm always looking for UK free LiDAR sources on the web. Some of the useful (sometimes non-free) ones I've come across are listed below.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/research/landscapes-and-areas/aerial-survey/archaeology/lidar/

english-heritage - the light fantastic

data.gov.uk/dataset/lidar-digital-surface-model

vterrain.org/Locations/uk/

lidar-uk.com

https://www.geomatics-group.co.uk/geocms/

geomatics-group uk catalogue shapefile

Andrew Richman Presentation

https://www2.getmapping.com/Products/LiDAR

http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7f1280cf215da6f8001eae5c2f019fe8

http://www.lidar.co.uk/

http://www.lidarbasemaps.org/

http://lidar.cr.usgs.gov/

If you know of any more please let me know so i can make this a definitive UK listing for Commercial and Free Sources of LiDAR.

Grass 7 Beta 4 just announced.

Hope you are having a great Christmas. Just wanted to remind the Free and Open Source Geospatial Community about the Grass GIS 7 (Beta 4) release of a couple of days ago. My apologies if this has been copied to social media sites but worth mentioning non-the-less. As a huge fan of this workhorse of a product it has some major new enhancements and features in order to bring it more in line with the rest of the wxPython Geospatial Community. Have a look at the following link:

http://grass.osgeo.org/news/39/15/GRASS-GIS-7-0-0-beta4/

Below is a quick example (exported as an animated gif) of how easy it is to produce a series of raster map overlays onto some base lidar data (using the 'r.lake' module and the new animation module) in order to get an idea of the effects of rising river water levels over a thousand year period as a result of global warming at the current sea level rise of 3mm per year (for this demo no other environmental factors have been taken into account).

 

The new animation module 'g.gui.animation' is capable of including several animations in a single window and able to support 3D, Space/time Rasters, Voxel/Volume and Vector data. Just got to get that legend working properly.

Installation for Ubuntu 14.4? users via'terminal':

Ubuntu 14.4: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:grass/grass-stable; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install grass70-core; grass70-gui; To start: grass70