FUSION is a LIDAR data conversion, analysis, and display software suite. FUSION allows 3-dimensional terrain and canopy surface models and LIDAR data to be fused with more traditional 2-dimensional imagery (e.g., orthophotographs, topographic maps, satellite imagery, GIS shapefiles). FUSION processes raw LIDAR data into a number of vegetation metrics. Canopy- and ground-level surface models can be produced; and then, by simple differing, canopy height models can be generated.
