Airborne
07.17.2018

Mission Planning: Interested in Lidar Surveys?

Hurricanes, flooding, landslides, wildfires and erupting volcanoes—rarely a week goes by when you don’t see headlines about these types of natural disasters, which…
Airborne
07.17.2018

Ron Roth Helps Steer Single-Photon

In the early years of this century, Leica Geosystems’ lidar guru Ron Roth and LIDAR Magazine managing editor Stewart Walker were both employed…
Airborne
07.17.2018

Vital Deployment of Lidar Data for Emergency Response–Rapid, Effective, Essential

Knowledge is power, and the more we know the stronger we become. In times of distress or disaster, acquiring highly accurate information becomes…
AirborneMobileTerrestrial
07.16.2018

Evolution of Point Cloud

Wikipedia has defined a “Point Cloud” as a set of data points in some coordinate system. In a three-dimensional coordinate system, these points…
Mobile
07.16.2018

Captured Once, Used Often

When mobile mapping solutions were introduced in the year 2000, the city of Amsterdam saw many uses for the 360-degree geo-referenced images. Mobile…
Mobile
06.22.2018

Fusion of Sensor Data Advances Geospatial Technology

The steady climb up the slope of improving sensor technology is generating better geospatial solutions, especially in mobile mapping and machine control, and…
06.22.2018

How ASPRS Helps Guide the Lidar Industry

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is a scientific association with a proud and storied history that dates back to…
AirborneMobile
06.22.2018

Airborne Lidar Flies High in Manitoba

The rising popularity of surveys using UAVs has led to great advances in photogrammetric techniques. Airborne lidar, however, still leads the way when…
Airborne
06.22.2018

The RIEGL miniVUX-1UAV—Charting the Evolution of RIEGL Sensors and Systems

Over the last five decades, few can claim to have devoted more to the development of lidar technology than Dr. Johannes Riegl, founder…
Terrestrial
06.22.2018

Capturing the Past—Historic Livermore Winery Building Lives on in a 3D Point Cloud

Livermore, California has a famous light…or more precisely, a lightbulb. For more than a century now the 4-watt light bulb, called the Centennial…
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