Department of Geography

Leicester Lidar Research Unit (LLRU)

An interdisciplinary research group working towards the development of techniques, methods and applications of Lidar remote sensing and image interpretation.

Members

• Dr Kevin Tansey (Director, Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
• Dr Nick Tate (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
• Dr Dickson Cunningham (Department of Geology, University of Leicester)
• Prof Heiko Balzter (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
• Ms Cici Alexander (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
• Mr Stephen Grebby (Department of Geology, University of Leicester)
• Dr Jing Li (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
• Mr. Nick Selmes (Department of Geography, University of Wales, Swansea)
• Mr Cutberto Paredes Hernández (Department of Geography, University of Leicester)
• Dr Jon Naden (British Geological Survey, UK)
• Dr Anthony Denniss (Infoterra Ltd, UK)
• Mr Andrew Anstee (Infoterra Ltd, UK)
• Dr Sarah Smith-Voysey (OS Research Fellow, Newcastle University)
• Dr Graham Ferrier (Department of Geography, University of Hull)
• Dr Andrej Gosar (Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia)

Projects

• Application of airborne Lidar to mapping seismogenic faults in forested mountainous terrain in Slovenia (Cunningham, Grebby, Gosar, Tansey)
• Automatic 3-D modelling of vegetation from laser scanner (Alexander, Tansey, Smith-Voysey)
• 3-D Visualization of OS MasterMap® Using Height Data from Lidar (Alexander, Smith-Voysey, Tate, Alexander, Tansey)
• Application of airborne Lidar to fault mapping, structural analysis, and identification of fracture controlled mineralisation, Slovenia and Cyprus (Grebby, Cunningham, Naden, Tansey)
• Terrestrial laser scanning for forest mensuration (Tansey, Selmes, Anstee, Tate, Denniss)
• Modelling and Prediction of GPS availability and multipath with Lidar DSM and OS master map (Li)
• The use of Lidar data for improved GPS height aiding computation - GPS/GIS integration (Li)

Sponsors

• Ordnance Survey (Research Labs.)
• British Geological Survey
• Infoterra Ltd.
• NERC ARSF
• Royal Society

Presentations & Posters

• Grebby et al., 'Application of airborne LiDAR to the detailed geological mapping of mineralised terrain: the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus': EGU General Assembly, 19-24th April 2009, Vienna, Austria.
• Grebby et al., 'A new tool for geological mapping in mineralised terrains: applications of airborne LiDAR data to VMS mineral exploration in the Troodos ophiolite': Mineral Deposits Studies Group/Applied Mineralogy Group Winter Meeting, 5-8th January 2009, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, UK.
• Balzter et al., 'Remote sensing of forest structure using LIDAR and SAR': Proceedings of the 8th Seminar on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Forest Engineering, 7-9th October 2008, Curitiba, Brazil.
• Alexander et al., 'Extraction of vegetation for topographic mapping from full-waveform airborne laser scanning data': SilviLaser 2008, 18-19 September 2008, Edinburgh, UK.
• Tate et al. (lead is M. Danson, ), 'Terrestrial laser scanners to measure forest canopy gap fraction': SilviLaser 2008, 18-19 September 2008, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 335-341.
• Tansey et al., 'Comparison of automated methods of estimating dbh in a coniferous forest stand using terrestrial laser scanning': Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society Annual Conference, 15-17 September 2008, Falmouth, UK.
• Alexander et al., 'Extraction of vegetation for topographic mapping from full-waveform airborne laser scanning data': Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society Annual Conference, 15-17 September 2008, Falmouth, UK.
• Tansey et al., 'Application of LiDAR to mapping seismogenic faults beneath a forest canopy in mountainous terrain, southeastern Alps, Slovenia': NERC ARSF Workshop, Newcastle University, 10 September 2007, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
• Cunningham et al., 'Application of LiDAR to mapping seismogenic faults in forested mountainous terrain, Julian Alps, NW Slovenia': EGU (European Geosciences Union) Annual Meeting, Vienna, 2007.
• Cunningham et al., 'Application of LiDAR to mapping seismogenic faults in forested mountainous terrain, Julian Alps, NW Slovenia': Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting, Glasgow, 2007.
• Cunningham et al., 'Application of airborne LiDAR to mapping seismogenic faults and associated brittle deformation in forested mountainous terrain, southeastern Alps, Slovenia': Geological Remote Sensing Group Annual Conference, Geological Society of London, London, UK, 4th - 5th December 2006.
• Tansey et al., 'Application of Lidar to mapping seismogenic faults beneath a forest canopy in mountainous terrain, southeastern Alps, Slovenia': Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, UK, 5th - 8th September 2006.
• Alexander et al., '3-D visualization of OS MasterMap using height data from Lidar': 14th Annual GISRUK Conference, University of Nottingham, UK, 5th - 7th April 2006.