Information Fusion of Land Laser Scanning for Geographic Information Systems

There is a wide variety of data sources for geographic information systems which acquisition technology is currently improved. Presently earth remote sensing and land laser scanning techniques are the most perspective ones. They are rapidly developed and offer strong resources for acquisition and analysis of spatial information with shortened outgoing in comparison with traditional techniques. Using of high power laser diodes in such systems open new opportunities in improvement of the whole system efficiency. This becomes possible due to the great improvement of output characteristics of diode lasers which will be described in the present work.