Airborne
09.24.2018

Meaningful Mapping

When it comes to determining what a particular object is, nothing beats a personal inspection. With a ground survey, one can see the…
Terrestrial
09.24.2018

Autonomous Vehicles Operational Thanks to Lidar

When Managing Editor Stewart Walker visited Cepton Technologies to investigate their efforts to build on their automotive lidar experience with a sensor designed…
Airborne
09.24.2018

UAS Data Becomes Increasingly Valuable for Worksite Monitoring

In 2013, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) predicted that from 2015-2025 the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the…
Mobile
09.24.2018

Subsurface Utilities Meet Mobile Lidar

There has been a dramatic growth in the past decade in subsurface utility mapping, but the need for improved utility location continues to…
09.24.2018

Evolution of Point Cloud—Part 2

In the first part of this paper, the various methods of creating point clouds from laser scanners and cameras were discussed. Additionally we…
Airborne
07.17.2018

Mission Planning: Interested in Lidar Surveys?

Hurricanes, flooding, landslides, wildfires and erupting volcanoes—rarely a week goes by when you don’t see headlines about these types of natural disasters, which…
Airborne
07.17.2018

Ron Roth Helps Steer Single-Photon

In the early years of this century, Leica Geosystems’ lidar guru Ron Roth and LIDAR Magazine managing editor Stewart Walker were both employed…
Airborne
07.17.2018

Vital Deployment of Lidar Data for Emergency Response–Rapid, Effective, Essential

Knowledge is power, and the more we know the stronger we become. In times of distress or disaster, acquiring highly accurate information becomes…
AirborneMobileTerrestrial
07.16.2018

Evolution of Point Cloud

Wikipedia has defined a “Point Cloud” as a set of data points in some coordinate system. In a three-dimensional coordinate system, these points…
Mobile
07.16.2018

Captured Once, Used Often

When mobile mapping solutions were introduced in the year 2000, the city of Amsterdam saw many uses for the 360-degree geo-referenced images. Mobile…
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