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Websites

• Terragen
• GeoFrac 2000
• LIDAR mapping technology
• Land Processes
• DEM geometry importer
• About LIDAR data
• Bluesky International
• Infoterra
• Getmapping
• Introduction to photogrammetry
• Cinesite

Books

• Wright, R. OpenGL SuperBible. SAMS Publishing.
• Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo. Accelerated C++. Adison Wesley.

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