July 19, 2018 – RIEGL is pleased to be the recipient of the 2018 Esri 3D Impact Award last week during the annual…
Author: LidarMag-Editor
Geospatial Intelligence: The Totally Made-Up Term That’s Changing the World
USGIF to host first ever commercial geospatial intelligence event in September
Around 2003, the U.S. intelligence and defense communities had a problem. Years earlier, we’d forced together remote sensing and imagery analysis with mapping…
New EU General Aviation Regulation Creates One Big Sky Over Europe
European Commission answers questions at EUROPEAN DRONE SUMMIT
Frankfurt/Karlsruhe, 17 July 2018. The new EU general aviation regulation will be coming into force in just a few days’ time. This marks…
Summer Learning
I’m writing this at home in the hinge of a diptych of learning opportunities. I’ve just returned from the AEC Next/SPAR 3D conference…
Mission Planning: Interested in Lidar Surveys?
Now’s the Time to Start Planning for 3DEP Grant Applications
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…
Points & Pixels
Leica Geosystems, Matterport Partner to Combine Digital Reality, Immersive Media Norcross, Ga./Sunnyvale, Calif., 13 June 2018—Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, industry leader in…
Ron Roth Helps Steer Single-Photon
A Tale of People, Acquisitions and Technology
In the early years of this century, Leica Geosystems’ lidar guru Ron Roth and LIDAR Magazine managing editor Stewart Walker were both employed…
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…
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…
Captured Once, Used Often
Mobile mapping reduces costs, increases efficiency
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…
