08.18.2021

Short-Range Lidar: Opportunities and Challenges

Most people associate lidar with long-range applications: aerial mapping, or those domes atop experimental autonomous vehicles. But lidar’s most exciting story may come…
08.18.2021

New Multi-Sensor/Software Combo Poised for Autonomous Driving Market

On 30 January 2021, a draft press release from Bay Area start-up Neural Propulsion Systems (NPS) hit the magazine’s inbox1. The fledgling company…
MobileTerrestrial
08.18.2021

Why Optical Phased Array is the Future of Lidar for Autonomous Vehicles

Lidar enables the future of AVs—it is a key technology that will help make self-driving cars safe, efficient, and reliable. Until recently, however,…
08.18.2021

Cities Branch out to Trim Trees

Dan Hicks, director of operations for the Parks Department in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, oversees several city assets from arenas to forestry. Every…
Airborne
08.18.2021

Accuracy Assessment of the Microdrones mdLiDAR3000DL

Note: See the PDF for more graphics Lidar systems based on small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) are rapidly advancing. This research investigates a Microdrones…
08.18.2021

Lisa Murray, Lidar Impressario: Reflections on Collaboration

Most readers of LIDAR Magazine have attended a Diversified Communications (DC) event, International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) being the best known. Many of…
Mobile
08.18.2021

Israeli Automotive Lidar Supplier Leapfrogs into Sight

We have often acknowledged in these pages the difference that lidar suppliers focused on the automotive sector, on both ADAS (advanced driver assistance…
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…
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