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01.14.2020

LiDAR USA Buzzes with Success and Innovation

Most practitioners in the lidar community know LiDAR USA, an acknowledged leader in the successful integration of lidar sensors on to land vehicles…

01.14.2020

QL0 Lidar Data Provides Highly Accurate Roadmap for Blueprint Columbus

Columbus is the capital city of the state of Ohio, which contracted for its first statewide lidar collection in 2006. Similarly, Columbus is…

01.14.2020

Levee Assessment After Hurricane Harvey Utilizing UAV-Lidar

The aftermath of Harvey Harvey began as a small, slow moving tropical storm in mid-August 2017. It was categorized as a tropical wave…

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