There’s something beautiful about working with LiDAR data, even though all you see is the geometry of the forest. Geometry is very important in human face recognition, but so too is color and motion:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4052483&tag=1

Below is a quick sample of recent LiDAR data from UBC’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest. Can you pick out any of the tree species shown? How about any other features of the landscape?