Terrestrial
05.18.2019

Blackmore Leads the Way with FM Lidar for AV Applications

Perception for any robotics task involves both the inference and prediction of reality from a set of imperfect sensors. All sensors seek to…
Airborne
05.18.2019

How Lidar Could Transform Disaster Recovery

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is collecting robust post-disaster lidar datasets and applying advanced algorithms to these data to help FEMA assess damage. The technology…
AirborneMobileTerrestrial
05.18.2019

Need Drove Innovation for Solv3D

Almost a decade ago, a small, forward-thinking surveying and engineering firm based in Calgary, Alberta began collecting large amounts of laser scanning data…
Airborne
05.08.2019

Lidar Enlightens the Search for Critical Minerals

Meeting the need for critical minerals, increasingly used in the production of a wide range of products in modern society, has never been…
Airborne
05.08.2019

Overcoming Hurdles to Modeling River Bathymetry

Modeling the bathymetry of rivers presents significant challenges for GIS professionals, as they try to model submerged terrain with the same accuracy and…
Terrestrial
05.01.2019

From the Archive: Peering Through Time with Laser Scanners

On April 15th, global news outlets bellowed out reports of a fire racing through Notre Dame cathedral—as panic ensued, a handful of reporters…
Airborne
04.03.2019

State of the Art – Drone Mapping

Few technological processes have evolved as quickly as drone-based mapping—as a result, even fewer people can consistently predict where it’s all headed, fully…
Airborne
04.01.2019

Airborne Lidar for Archaeology in Central and South America

The rainforests in Central and South America give little indication of the civilizations that they’ve swallowed up. A few centuries ago these regions…
Mobile
04.01.2019

3D Mapping on the Move: Making Fantasy a Reality

The Tricorder from Star Trek and the “pups” from Prometheus are Hollywood’s idea of a futuristic means to sense and capture surroundings instantly—almost…
AirborneMobileTerrestrial
04.01.2019

Geospatial Trends to Watch

There’s no question digital transformation is making geospatial technology increasingly relevant in industries globally, whether adding precision to a position, context to mass…
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