in terms of notability within the us discussions about lidar and it's availability tend to be found most readily in either government publications such as those discussing the national elevation dataset or related efforts at noaa or usda one example of which is the publication of the first national lidar initiative meeting or industry publications such as those covering gis and remote sensing including directions magazine spatial news geospatial solutions geoworld gps world gis vision gis monitor urisa journal photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing gita and point of beginning