Riegl- High-resolution Lidar Bathymetry from different platforms
Approaching a water body’s surface for topo-bathymetric LiDAR survey opens new perspectives for hydrographic survey tasks. As with topographic surveying, where drone-based data acquisition has successfully proven to provide a significant increase in detail and thus to define a new data information quality, bathymetric near-surface scenarios promise to be an effective complement to area-efficient high-altitude LiDAR and remote sensing. We discuss results from test projects in the French Mediterranean and compare datasets from different operational setups.