05.22.2021

Mapping Coastal California

California’s 1352 kilometers of coastline present varied and challenging mapping environments. These range from the sandy beaches of Malibu to the rocky coasts…
05.22.2021

New Views of California’s Forests

I suspect I have a sympathetic audience in these pages when I state that lidar is a premier technology for forest mapping and…
05.22.2021

A Rewarding Pyramid Scheme

Researchers at the University of Florida have been working with UAS lidar for several years. This includes low-level investigation into the sensor and…
05.22.2021

Seoul Robotics Makes Lidar Discovery

On 7 January 2021, Seoul Robotics, a Korean start-up, created a stir when it launched Discovery, a first-of-its-kind “plug and play” product in…
05.22.2021

Hurricanes Wreak Change on Puerto Rico’s Coasts

This is a follow-up to an earlier article by the same authors: Karlin, A., R. Miller and A. Nayegandhi, Measuring Maria’s havoc: evaluating…
05.04.2021

Combating California Crises with Maps

San Francisco Bay Area land managers and stewards have the responsibility of caring for one of the most populated, but also most ecologically…
Airborne
04.20.2021

Lidar Data Processing Made Easy

Plan, fly, process, visualize. These four steps of the drone surveying workflow from Microdrones have guided professionals in fields like surveying, construction, and…
04.01.2021

The Next Decade with lidar

The keynote at the Workshop was given by James Van Rens of RIEGL USA. LIDAR Magazine (LM) interviewed James (JVR) and put questions…
04.01.2021

The Florida ASPRS Lidar Workshops

The five Water Management Districts (WMDs) in Florida—Northwest Florida (NWFWMD), St. Johns River (SJRWMD), Suwannee River (SRWMD), South Florida (SFWMD), and Southwest Florida…
04.01.2021

Lidar Actors in Florida

The workshops traditionally begin with representatives of the five Water Management Districts (WMDs)—Northwest Florida (NWFWMD), South Florida (SFWMD), St. Johns River (SJRWMD), Suwannee…
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