chapter 1 Introduction to Laser Ranging, Profiling, and Scanning / chapter 2 Airborne and Spaceborne Laser Profilers and Scanners / chapter 3 Terrestrial Laser Scanners / chapter 4 LiDAR Systems and Calibration / chapter 5 Pulsed Laser Altimeter Ranging Techniques and Implications for Terrain Mapping / chapter 6 Georeferencing Component of LiDAR Systems / chapter 7 Waveform Analysis for Small-Footprint Pulsed Laser Systems / chapter 8 Strip Adjustment and Registration / chapter 9 Accuracy, Quality Assurance, and Quality Control of LiDAR Data / chapter 10 Management of LiDAR Data / chapter 11 LiDAR Data Filtering and DTM Generation / chapter 12 Forest Inventory Using Small-Footprint Airborne LiDAR / chapter 13 Integration of LiDAR and Photogrammetric Data: Triangulation and Orthorectification / chapter 14 Feature Extraction from LiDAR Data in Urban Areas / chapter 15 Building Extraction from LiDAR Point Clouds Based on Clustering Techniques / chapter 16 Building and Road Extraction by LiDAR and Imagery / chapter 17 A Data-Driven Method for Modeling 3D Building Objects Using a Binary Space Partitioning Tree / chapter 18 A Framework for Automated Construction of Building Models from Airborne LiDAR Measurements / chapter 19 Quality of Buildings Extracted from Airborne Laser Scanning Data: Results of an Empirical Investigation on 3D Building Reconstruction