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06.03.2024

French Mining Company Eramet Advances Sustainability with Smart Maps

In Senegal, one of the world’s largest titanium and zirconium mines is always on the move. The French mining company Eramet, which operates…
06.01.2024

USDA Exceeds Petabyte Milestone for Processing Lidar Data

How did the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) address the challenge of processing an enormous volume of lidar data, modernize the output, then manage and catalog the data for its stakeholders?
Airborne
06.01.2024

Florida Lidar Tradition Continues

The Florida Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (FL-ASPRS) and the University of Florida (UF) Geomatics Division held the…
Airborne
05.04.2024

Lidar Brings Monticello into Focus

Today, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello ranks as one of the most important historical sites in the United States. Two centuries ago, Monticello was a…
05.04.2024

3D AI in the Lidar HD Production Process

How AI improves the point-cloud classification process at IGN, France’s national mapping agency The Lidar HD program Designed to meet the needs of…
05.04.2024

Digital Twins Open Up New Possibilities For Rainforest Conservation

Imagine a digital twin. Perhaps you are imagining the digital representation of a chip inside a phone or of a manufacturing shop floor,…
05.04.2024

Lidar DEMs for Continuous Flow Surface Hydrography Feature Extraction

Surface-water modeling from lidar-derived DEMs Over the past 20 years, lidar-derived digital elevation models (DEMs) have become the staple of surface-water hydrography and…
05.04.2024

Decades of Historic Data Finished

Accurate geospatial data on surface water and drainage is crucial for planning, engineering, and daily operational activities for every county in every state….
05.04.2024

Best Practices in Evaluating Geospatial Mapping Accuracy According to the New ASPRS Accuracy Standards

This highlight article was inspired by a comment I received from Richard C. Maher, PLS, president of KDM Meridian: “I attended both of…
02.04.2024

Finns Use Lidar in Canada’s Northern Archipelago

In the historical era of expeditions, simply reaching the unknown and dangerous destination was usually one of the biggest challenges. Scientific research was…
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