Airborne
11.20.2021

A New Hybrid Product Approach: Aligning Project Specifications with UAS, Photogrammetry and Lidar

This paper discusses research on a new and creative method of merging geospatial data from differing backgrounds and with varied accuracy specifications. The…
AirborneTerrestrial
11.15.2021

Airborne Hybrid Sensor Maps the Country

The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) is a partnership program with many state, local, and Federal partners, managed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)…
Airborne
11.15.2021

Tough Requirements Call for New Solutions

When the Merrick-Surdex Joint Venture (JV) saw the call for proposals for a US government 3DEP survey to deliver classified point clouds and…
11.15.2021

Mapping the Era of Sustainable Sustenance

Agriculture, one of humanity’s oldest industries, remained largely unchanged for tens of thousands of years, until a century ago. Then, it underwent a…
MobileTerrestrial
11.15.2021

Lidar for Housing Valuations

Lidar is now being used to address an age-old problem that impacts nearly everybody—real-estate valuations. As accuracy improves and form factors get smaller,…
Airborne
11.15.2021

Watching the Great Lakes Shorelines

Record high water levels in the Great Lakes of the United States increase shoreline erosion, reduce efficacy of natural shoreline protection, and threaten…
AirborneMobile
11.15.2021

Energetic Data Acquisition in Florida

The spring 2021 FL-ASPRS/UF Lidar Workshop was held remotely on 17 June 2021 and attended by 140 participants. While the majority were from…
10.30.2021

In Memoriam: Martin Isenburg, 1972-2021

Dr. Martin Isenburg, 49, of Rodgau, Germany, committed suicide at his vacation home in Sámara, Costa Rica about September 9th, 2021, after a…
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…
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