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09.22.2024

Vexcel Imaging Enters the Lidar Market

Recent Vexcel Imaging announcements Vexcel Imaging, headquartered in the beautiful city of Graz in Austria, is familiar to most readers. Its high-performance aerial…
09.22.2024

A Digital Twin for Nottingham

As urban environments continue to evolve, local authorities require increasingly comprehensive and accurate geospatial data to inform governance, planning, and communication with their…
09.22.2024

Elevations for the Nations Part II

Mapping activities for the United States are centrally regulated for a land area of 3.8 million square miles, whereas lidar coverage of Europe’s…
06.03.2024

French Mining Company Eramet Advances Sustainability with Smart Maps

In Senegal, one of the world’s largest titanium and zirconium mines is always on the move. The French mining company Eramet, which operates…
06.01.2024

USDA Exceeds Petabyte Milestone for Processing Lidar Data

How did the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) address the challenge of processing an enormous volume of lidar data, modernize the output, then manage and catalog the data for its stakeholders?
Airborne
06.01.2024

Florida Lidar Tradition Continues

The Florida Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (FL-ASPRS) and the University of Florida (UF) Geomatics Division held the…
Airborne
05.04.2024

Lidar Brings Monticello into Focus

Today, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello ranks as one of the most important historical sites in the United States. Two centuries ago, Monticello was a…
05.04.2024

3D AI in the Lidar HD Production Process

How AI improves the point-cloud classification process at IGN, France’s national mapping agency The Lidar HD program Designed to meet the needs of…
05.04.2024

Digital Twins Open Up New Possibilities For Rainforest Conservation

Imagine a digital twin. Perhaps you are imagining the digital representation of a chip inside a phone or of a manufacturing shop floor,…
05.04.2024

Lidar DEMs for Continuous Flow Surface Hydrography Feature Extraction

Surface-water modeling from lidar-derived DEMs Over the past 20 years, lidar-derived digital elevation models (DEMs) have become the staple of surface-water hydrography and…
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