Publications

2011

LiDAR Point Cloud Processing with libPC and libLAS (PDF, 35 slides)

  • Howard Butler, primary author; presented at FOSS4G 2011 in Denver, 15 September 2011

Open Source Licensing (PDF, 3 pages)

  • Lidar News column #3, 14 September 2011

The libLAS project (PDF, 3 pages)

  • Lidar News column #2, 19 August 2011

Lidar and Open Source (PDF, 2 pages)

  • Lidar News column #1, 28 July 2011

Point Clouds and Open Source (PDF, 16 slides)

  • Presentation at the DARPA GRID Workshop (Washington, DC), 30 June 2011

Working with, and in, the Open Source Community (PDF, 36 slides)

  • Keynote Presentation at MapWindow / DotSpatial Workshop (San Diego), 15 June 2011

Current Topics in Open Source Lidar (PDF, 23 slides)

  • Presentation at MapWindow / DotSpatial Workshop (San Diego), 15 June 2011

Current Topics in Open Source Lidar (PDF, 28 slides)

  • Presentation at WAURISA 2011 (Lynnwood, Washington), 10 May 2011

Open Source Lidar: Where we’re at and Where we need to be (PDF, 20 slides)

  • Presentation at CUGOS Spring Fling (Seattle), April 2011

Lidar Serving/Visualization: just some thoughts (PDF, 7 slides)

  • Presentation at CUGOS Spring Fling (Seattle), April 2011

libPC: an open source lidar library (PDF, 6 slides)

  • Presentation at CUGOS Spring Fling (Seattle), April 2011

Open Source Lidar: Where we’re at and Where we need to be (PDF, 20 slides)

  • Presentation at UW/BCIT/ASPRS Emerging Technology Workshop (Seattle), April 2011

CUGOS talk on liblas/libpc (PDF, 21 slides)

  • Presentation at CUGOS monthly meeting (Seattle), February 2011

libpc – Design & Implementation (part 1) (PDF, 37 slides) and libpc – Design & Implementation (part 2) (PDF, 20 slides)

  • Presentation at OSGeo Codesprint 2011 (Montreal), March 2011

2010

Open Source Geo Under .NET (PDF, 15 slides)

  • Presentation at CUGOS monthly meeting (Seattle), June 2010

Open Source 101 (PDF, 19 slides)

  • Presentation at WAURISA 2010 (Tacoma, Washington), April 2010

If It’s “Free”, Is It “Good”? (PDF, 9 slides)

  • Presentation at WAURISA 2010 (Tacoma, Washington), April 2010

2009

Some quick slides on Image Compression (PDF, 16 slides)

  • Presentation at CUGOS monthly meeting (Seattle), April 2009

Open Sources #25: Open Source is Everywhere! (PDF, 1 page)

  • Column in GeoConnexions magazine, December 2009 / January 2010

Open Sources #222: The Toronto Code Sprint (PDF, 2 pages)

  • Column in GeoConnexions magazine, July/August 2009

GeoWeb 101 – What is Geo? – GeoWeb Data and Data Formats (PDF, 52 slides)

  • Workshop at GeoWeb 2009 (Vancouver, BC), July 2009

Compressing Lidar Data (not available online)

  • Article in PE&RS, November 2009

2008

Image Compression (“Bluffer’s Guide”) (not available online)

  • Article in GeoWorld magazine, September 2008

Open Source Servers (PDF, 5 slides)

  • Panel at GeoWeb 2008 (Vancouver, BC), July 2008

Feature Extraction in Google Earth using Mechanical Turks (PDF, 38 slides)

  • Joint with Cody Benkelman
  • Presentation at GeoWeb 2008 (Vancouver, BC), July 2008

Some Use-Cases for Image Processing Workflows (PDF, 18 slides)

  • Presentation at OGC TC meeting, September 2008

Open Source and GIS (PDF, 7 slides)

  • Presentation at Central Puget Sound Users Group (Seattle), March 2008

What is Open Source GIS? (PDF, 16 slides)

  • Presentation at University of Washington (Seattle), March 2008

2007

Imaging on the Geospatial Web Using JPEG 2000 (PDF, 15 pages)

  • Joint with Matt Fleagle
  • Chapter from “The Geospatial Web” book, 2007

Open Sources #1 (PDF, 2 pages)

  • Column in GeoConnexions magazine, May 2007

Geospatial Standards for JPEG 2000 (PDF, 80 slides)

  • Workshop at GeoWeb 2007 (Vancouver, BC), July 2007

LizardTech: Why we use Open Source software (PDF, 6 pages)

  • Article in OSGeo Journal, September 2007

Open Source Licensing 101 (PDF, 25 slides)

  • Presentation at CUGOS monthly meeting (Seattle), June 2007

2006

Bringing JPEG 2000 into the GeoWeb (PDF, 18 slides)

  • Presentation at GeoWeb 2006 (Vancouver, BC), July 2006

The JPEG 2000 & GML Connection — Part 1 (PDF, 33 slides), Part 2 (PDF, 14 slides), Part 3 (PDF, 13 slides)

  • Workshop at GeoWeb 2006 (Vancouver, BC), July 2006

WCS Work for OWS-4 – JPEG 2000 and WCS-T (PDF, 14 slides)

  • Presentation at OGC TC meeting, December 2006

Recent JPEG 2000 Work at OGC (PDF, 9 slides)

  • Presentation at NGA NTB meeting, November 2007

Bringing JPEG 2000 into the GeoWeb (not available online)

  • Article in Geospatial Solutions / GPS World magazine, October 2006

New GMLJP2 Standard (PDF, 2 pages)

  • Article in GeoConnexions magazine, September 2006

Address to the China Chapter of OSGeo (PDF, 5 pages)

  • Speech at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), September 2006

OSGeo and the Open Source Movement (PDF, 24 slides)

  • Presentation at the Chinese Academhy of Sciences (Beijing), September 2006

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (PDF, 16 slides)

  • Presentation at GeoWeb 2006 (Vancouver, BC), July 2006

2005

JPEG 2000 for GIS Professionals (PDF, 88 slides)

  • Workshop at GML Days 2005 (Vancouver, BC), July 2005

GML, GMLJP2, WCS, WFS, JPIP, … (PDF, 32 slides)

  • Presentation at NGA NTB meeting, November 2005

Image Compression and Intel (PDF, 5 pages)  (not available online)

  • Article in GeoIntelligence magazine, January/February 2005

Tonal Balancing (PDF, 5 pages)  (not available online)

  • Joint with Cody Benkelman
  • Article in Earth Imaging Journal, November/December 2005

JPEG 2000 and GML (PDF, 4 pages)  (not available online)

  • Joint with Karen Morley
  • Article at Earth Imaging Journal, January/February 2005

2004

An Introduction to JPEG 2000 for GIS Professionals (PDF, 80 slides)

  • Workshop at GML Days 2004 (Vancouver, BC), 30 July 2004