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01.14.2025

#15 – Felix Reinshagen

NavVis unveiled its new MLX handheld laser scanner for reality capture at INTERGEO in September 2024. The MLX complements the VLX2 and VLX3…

Features
12.30.2024

Mapping Green Carbon

Among the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems, tropical dry forests serve as vital carbon sinks and are teeming with life that supports human existence….
12.30.2024

Century-Old Maps of Ochlockonee Shoal Updated with Topobathymetric Lidar

A pronounced shallow area, known as the Ochlockonee Shoal, lies in the Gulf of Mexico about eight miles off the Big Bend of…
12.30.2024

Airborne Lidar: A Tutorial for 2025

Since the beginning of the 21st century, airborne lidar (light detection and ranging) has entirely revolutionized topographic data acquisition. National mapping agencies around…
12.30.2024

Finding Connecticut’s Historic Buildings In High-Density Lidar Point Clouds

Most familiar lidar applications, such as terrain modeling, land development, and hydrology, focus on the bare-earth model, a digital terrain model (DTM), which…
Airborne
12.30.2024

Next-Generation Geiger-Mode Lidar Systems

Geiger-mode (GM) lidar has been operationally proven by the US military since 20101 and is seeing renewed interest in the commercial geospatial world….
12.30.2024

The U.S. Geodesy Crisis

Editor’s Note: The following appeared in the September 2023 of the Hydrographic Review Panel newsletter The current decline in the geodetic capacity in…
AirborneMobile
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…
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