For this installment of Quick Takes, LIDAR Magazine accepted an invitation from Quantum Spatial Inc. (QSI) to interview senior vice president Mark Meade….
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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…
To Have and to Hold
Geo Week 2020 Postponed
Our March/April edition has much to do with the Geo Week 2020 series of conferences, originally slated for March 22-26 in Washington D.C….
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit
USC Hosts Annual Showcase
On 28 February, I braved LA traffic to attend the Los Angeles Geospatial Summit 2020, a one-day event at the University of Southern…
The Advantages and Complementarities of SAR
Quick Takes with Dr. Joerg Herrmann of Capella Space
For this installment of Quick Takes, we discuss the commercialization of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with Dr. Joerg Herrmann, Senior Vice President, Special…
2020 – Starting at the top
Never a News Famine in Silicon Valley
2020 started at the top for LIDAR Magazine! Managing editor Stewart Walker was invited to attend the GeoBuiz Summit, which took place from…
The Right Tool for the Job
Quick-takes with Troy Hittle of senseFly USA
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…