LidarBook

led by Cesar Alvites

Overview

This website provides an open research and educational resource hosting teaching materials, documented workflows, datasets, and analysis tools for forest remote sensing and geospatial analysis. The content integrates local computing environments and cloud-computing platforms for LiDAR processing and large-scale geospatial analysis to support both research and training activities.

The objective is to promote transparent and reproducible remote sensing methodologies. Materials are organized to guide users through complete analytical pipelines, including data discovery and acquisition, preprocessing, mapping, modeling, validation, and export of final products.

Rather than a personal webpage, the site functions as a living repository of methods and training resources in which code, tutorials, and applications are maintained, documented, and expanded over time to support reproducible research and education.

Technologies

The platform combines open-source and cloud-based tools commonly used in remote sensing and forest analytics:

R code R Markdown documents LiDAR data lidR package terra package sf package Google Earth Engine JavaScript HTML CSS

Learning & Resources

Workshop Exercises

Guided hands-on tutorials introducing Google Earth Engine, LiDAR processing, and reproducible workflows. Each exercise includes documented code and practical examples.

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Research Workflows

Reproducible processing pipelines, scripts, and companion materials associated with research products, including biomass mapping, canopy structure analysis, and large-scale monitoring.

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Tools & web-based Apps

Interactive applications, web tools, and data-processing utilities that support forest monitoring and scalable geospatial analysis.

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Data Availability

Example datasets, reference tables, figures, and supporting files used across tutorials and workflows. Designed to be easy to reuse in teaching or research.

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Application Domains

These materials support reproducible workflows across multiple application areas, including:

Cesar Alvites

Cesar Alvites

School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

This site gathers materials produced in workshops, courses, research activities, and lab development. It includes datasets, scripts, tutorials, and small tools or frameworks for LiDAR processing and cloud-based geospatial analysis. All content can be downloaded and reused for thesis work, research projects, training, or self-study.