1. Introduction to laser ranging, profiling, and scanning / Gordon Petrie and Charles K. Toth -- 2. Airborne and spaceborne laser profilers and scanners / Gordon Petrie and Charles K. Toth -- 3. Terrestrial laser scanners / Gordon Petrie and Charles K. Toth -- 4. LiDAR systems and calibration / Aloysius Wehr -- 5. Pulsed laser altimeter ranging techniques and implications for terrain mapping / David Harding -- 6. Georeferencing component of LiDAR systems / Naser El-Sheimy -- 7. Waveform analysis for small-footprint pulsed laser systems / Uwe Stilla and Boris Jutzi -- 8. Strip adjustment and registration / Charles K. Toth -- 9. Accuracy, quality assurance, and quality control of LiDAR data / Ayman Habib -- 10. Management of LiDAR data / Lewis Graham -- 11. LiDAR data filtering and DTM generation / Norbert Pfeifer and Gottfried Mandlburger -- 12. Forest inventory using small-footprint airborne LiDAR / Juha Hyypp ̃... [et al.] -- 13. Integration of LiDAR and photogrammetric data : triangulation and orthorectification / Ayman Habib -- 14. Feature extraction from LiDAR data in urban areas / Frďřic Bretar -- 15. Building extraction from LiDAR point clouds based on clustering techniques / Jie Shan and Aparajithan Sampath -- 16. Building and road extraction by LiDAR and imagery / Franz Rottensteiner and Simon Clode -- 17. A data-driven method for modeling 3D building objects using a binary space partitioning tree / Gunho Sohn, Xianfeng Huang, and Vincent Tao -- 18. A framework for automated construction of building models from airborne LiDAR measurements / Keqi Zhang, Jianhua Yan, and Shu-Ching Chen -- 19. Quality of buildings extracted from airborne laser scanning data : results of an empirical investigation on 3D building reconstruction / Eberhard G¿lch, Harri Kaartinen, and Juha Hyypp.̃