AirborneTerrestrial
12.04.2019

Not Just for Surveying: Lidar’s Big Impact in Weather

We’re all aware that lidar (light detection and ranging) data supports a myriad of surveying activities—from modeling and mapping to emergency response and…
Airborne
12.04.2019

Crunching the Numbers

While hailed as one of the great achievements in modern survey and measurement technology, lidar has long been hampered by the very product…
MobileTerrestrial
11.20.2019

The Past and Future of Handheld 3D Scanning

In the past few years, SLAM-based handheld lidar scanners have made a big entrance into the 3D-capture market. These solutions are becoming popular…
Airborne
11.20.2019

UAS: Get to Know the Newest Tool in Your Toolbox

If you feel every business but yours has a drone, here’s why: the market for commercial drones is growing faster than even the…
Airborne
11.08.2019

The Right Tool for the Job

For this installment of quick-takes, we caught up with Troy Hittle of senseFly USA, manufacturer of America’s most popular fixed-wing drone platform, to…
Airborne
11.08.2019

UAVs flying high

A frenetic conference year lost no momentum as LIDAR Magazine attended Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2019, held in the usual Westgate Las Vegas…
Airborne
10.31.2019

Democratizing Photogrammetry

Thanks in no small part to drones, more and more professionals are becoming interested in photogrammetric data collection. For many, once data has…
Mobile
10.24.2019

Time on the Rails

Between October 14-17, RIEGL USA hosted their first North American Training Symposium in Orlando, Florida, an event aimed at bringing power users together…
10.07.2019

SICK: The World’s Largest One-Stop-Shop for Industrial Lidar Solutions

SICK GmbH, founded by Dr. Erwin Sick in 1946, is a large European manufacturer of sensors and sensor solutions, offering a wide portfolio…
10.07.2019

Automation in UAV-Lidar Unleashes Business Potential

At the end of 2017, managing editor Stewart Walker visited Phoenix LiDAR Systems to learn about their core competency in integrating lidar systems…
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