Monday 2 November saw the opening session of RS Fire 2020: The Remote Sensing & Wildland Fire Symposium Series, an event run by…
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More gems from lidar online events
Fall 2020 LiDAR Workshop and more
I’ve written before, on this site, as well as in the print editions, about the stream of rich content that has become available…
Intellectual Journeys
2020 Goes Virtual
We continue to stay home as much as possible and view with apprehension covid-19’s ravages across our country. Nevertheless, we can consume a…
A Billion Points of Light
Exploring the world with aerial cinema, lidar, and images
When GEO1 interviews potential team members, one of the first questions we ask is how the candidate discovered their passion for the geospatial…
This Won’t Be the LASt time…
The workings of international standards
Is it really 55 years since the Stones released the song whose title I have massacred above? Following my recent scribbles on the…
Quantum Spatial Survives the Pandemic
Service company leads with lidar during tough times
For this installment of Quick Takes, LIDAR Magazine accepted an invitation from Quantum Spatial Inc. (QSI) to interview senior vice president Mark Meade….
HSRP suggests bright future for bathymetric/topographic lidar
Qassim Abdullah gets his feet wet
On 28 April I attended a virtual meeting, more than three hours long, of the NOAA Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP). Members were…
Abroad thoughts from home
I hope Robert Browning will forgive me mutilating his title, but at least it is April and many of us are yearning to…
Emeritus Professor Gordon Petrie
Eminent teacher and researcher of photogrammetry and lidar passes
It is with great sadness I report the death of my mentor and professor, Gordon Petrie, on 4 April 2020, in Glasgow, Scotland….
Lidar and GIS grow closer together
Riegl RiMAP Add-In smooths the data flow from Lidar scanner to Esri’s ArcGIS Platform
Lidar is a major source of geographic information, yet its voluminous data sets and their characteristics, which are different from those of image…