2016 Operational LiDAR Inventory (OLI) Meeting

The First Operational Lidar Inventory (OLi) meeting took place on January 25, 2016 in Olympia, WA.

The first OLi meeting has finished, thanks everyone for their time and for their insights into the topics discussed.


Click here to view/download the 2016 Meeting agenda, presentation synopses, attendees (PDF)

Click on the highlighted titles/speaker names below to view/download presentation PDF.


Meeting Agenda

9:00 – 9:30  Introduction, Jacob Strunk

9:30 – 10:45  Mini Presentations** – DNR (P. Gould), ODF (T. Haren), USFS (L. Rathbun)

11:00 – 11:20  Break

11:20 – 12:00  Mini Presentations** – Tesera (I. Moss), BLM (G. McFadden), MFLNRO (C. Butson)

12:00 – 1:10  Lunch – Cardboard 3D Lidar Viewer (few minutes)

1:10 – 1:40 Discussion 1 – Predict Species with Lidar / hyperspectral – Scott Nowicki

1:40 – 2:10  Discussion 2 – Remote Sensing Data Collection – Steve Reutebuch

2:10 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 3:00  Discussion 3 – Tree Lists – Ian Moss

3:00 – 3:30  Discussion 4 – Validation example – Dan Couch

3:30 – 4:00  Discussion 5 – Plot Database – Bob McGaughey

4:00 – 4:30  Discussion 6 – Dealing with Difficult Variables Like Species – Jacob & Peter

4:30 – 4:45  Concluding Remarks

4:45 – 5:00  Open Discussion E.g.: Internal deployment, user integration, inventory derivatives, lidar processing in R or python, component prediction, inventory projections, versioning, updating, change detection, etc.

**Speakers from these organizations will be introduce their inventories and touch on the following 7 topics: 1) Inventory tool chain 2) What are they inventorying 3) Who are they serving 4) What sorts of outputs are they producing 5) How do they deal with species 6) How do they integrate outputs with an existing inventory system 7) Highest priority for improvements

Bonus presentations

  1. Dealing with Difficult Variables Like Species (not presented) – Jacob & Peter
  2. Snags, shrubs, cwd (not presented) – Brian Wing, USFS