George Heritage is the senior geomorphologist with JBA Consulting Ltd. He is also an honorary research fellow in the Built and Human Environment Research Institute, School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford. He is an expert in terrestrial laser scanning in a range of riverine and glacial environments. Andrew Large is a senior lecturer in physical geography at Newcastle University. His expertise lies in river science and management including monitoring rates of processes in gravel-bed systems and evaluating the effects of glacial outburst floods in the UK and overseas using both airborne and terrestrial LiDAR.

• List of Contributors, viiPreface, ix1 Laser Scanning – Evolution of the Discipline, 1Andrew R.G Large and George L Heritage2 Principles of 3D Laser Scanning, 21George L Heritage and Andrew R.G Large3 Issues in Laser Scanning, 35Martin E Charlton, Seamus J Coveney and Timothy McCarthy4 Airborne LiDAR: Instrumentation, Data Acquisition and Handling, 49Bernard Devereux and Gabriel Amable5 Geostatisical Analysis of LiDAR Data, 67Chris Brunsdon6 Laser Scanning: Data Quality, Protocols and General Issues, 82David Hetherington7 Terrestrial Laser Scanning to Derive Surface Grain Size Facies Character of Gravel Bars, 102Neil S Entwistle and Ian C Fuller8 Airborne Laser Scanning: Methods for Processing and Automatic Feature Extraction for Natural Artificial objects, 115Christoph Straub, Yungsheng Wang and Octavian Iercan9 Terrestrial Laser Scan-derived Topographic and Roughness Data for Hydraulic Modelling of Gravel-bed Rivers, 133David J.Milan10 Airborne LiDAR Measurements to Quantify Change in Sandy Beaches, 147Michael J Starek, K Clint Slatton, Ramesh L Shrestha and William E Carter11 LiDAR in the Environmental Sciences: Geological Applications, 165David Hodgetts12 Using LiDAR in Archaeological Contexts: The English Heritage Experience and Lessons Learned, 180Simon Crutchley13 Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Measuring Vegetation Canopy Structure, 201F.M Danson, F Morsdorf and B Koetz14 Flood Modelling and Vegetation Mapping in Large River Systems, 220Ian C Overton, Anders Siggins, John C Gallant, David Penton and Guy Byrne15 Laser Scanning Surveying of Linear Features: Considerations and Applications, 245Michael Lim, Jon Mills and Nicholas Rosser16 Laser Scanning: The Future, 262Andrew R.G Large, George L Heritage and Martin E CharltonIndex, 273Color plates appear in between pages 150–151

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