Introduces principles of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) remote sensing, LiDAR sensors and platforms, LiDAR data, processing, analysis, and applications. Students will master basic skills of LiDAR needed to leverage the commercial LiDAR sources and information products in a broad range of applications, including topographic mapping, vegetation characterization, and 3-D modeling of urban infrastructure. Students will learn several software packages for LiDAR data displaying, processing, and analyzing. Students will link social and geospatial sciences through mapping projects and analysis.