Leclused
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Hello,
A while ago a member of our club found out that for Belgium Lidar surface/terrain data is available. He wrote an article about it on our blog
http://scavalon.blogspot.be/2016/01/virtueel-prospecteren-met-lidar.html
Especially the feature were you can look at the terrain with a hillshade is usefull for us cavers who do prospecting. It allows us to see nearly every depression on the surface from behind our computer. Even if this depression is situated in a forest. These depression are not visisble on photo's due to the trees but with lidar Terrain-Hillshade they become visible. In the application for the Ardennes we can add other layers such as ign cards/ river cards / aerial photo's / ..... and that makes it an incredible usefull application (for us Belgian cavers)
Of course this is not usefull for the UK. But it seems that something similar is available for the uk too.
https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/16/free-mapping-data-will-elevate-flood-risk-knowledge/
More info on their portal : https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surveys-light-up-open-data/
I did not check it in detail of how far you can go for the uk and which data is freely availabe. But perhaps I triggered some interest of some prospectors ....

Br
A while ago a member of our club found out that for Belgium Lidar surface/terrain data is available. He wrote an article about it on our blog
http://scavalon.blogspot.be/2016/01/virtueel-prospecteren-met-lidar.html
Especially the feature were you can look at the terrain with a hillshade is usefull for us cavers who do prospecting. It allows us to see nearly every depression on the surface from behind our computer. Even if this depression is situated in a forest. These depression are not visisble on photo's due to the trees but with lidar Terrain-Hillshade they become visible. In the application for the Ardennes we can add other layers such as ign cards/ river cards / aerial photo's / ..... and that makes it an incredible usefull application (for us Belgian cavers)
Of course this is not usefull for the UK. But it seems that something similar is available for the uk too.
https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/16/free-mapping-data-will-elevate-flood-risk-knowledge/
More info on their portal : https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surveys-light-up-open-data/
I did not check it in detail of how far you can go for the uk and which data is freely availabe. But perhaps I triggered some interest of some prospectors ....


Br