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• Scotland’s LiDAR revolution: First data release to reveal Scotland’s landscape in unprecedented detail

  29th January 2026 by Stewart Hamilton

  Guest blog by Prof. Mathew Williams, Scottish Government Chief Scientific Adviser for Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture. We are pleased to announce this week the first release of data from Scotland’s new national land Light Detecting and Ranging (LiDAR) programme, delivered by the Scottish Government with multiple partners. The goal of the programme is to…

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