Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 15 January 2025 – Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) announces the launch and deployment of Canada’s Gray Jay Arctic surveillance technology…
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Space Flight Laboratory Announces Launch and Deployment of NorSat-4 Maritime Monitoring Microsatellite
Seventh Satellite Developed by SFL for Norway Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 15 January 2025 – Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has confirmed the successful launch…
TREKK Design Group Acquires State-of-the-Art LiDAR Scanner
Kansas City, Mo. – January 10, 2025 – Kansas City-based civil engineering firm TREKK Design Group, LLC, (TREKK) recently acquired the first Trimble…
Woolpert to Collect Orthoimagery and Lidar for State of Indiana
To Help Advance Statewide Imagery and Lidar Programs
The data will support the Indiana Geographic Information Office and its infrastructure, public safety, and environmental efforts statewide. Indianapolis (Jan. 9, 2025) —…
DJI Matrice 4 Series Brings Intelligence to Aerial Operations
New Matrice 4T and Matrice 4E enterprise drones feature smart detection for Smarter Operations and Laser Range Finder for Real-Time Precise Measurement January…
Lidar is Everywhere!
We’ve packed this edition, our annual Airborne Technology Showcase, with five feature articles that illustrate lidar’s growing capabilities—perhaps more importantly, how it has…
Mapping Green Carbon
How lidar is saving Ecuador’s tropical dry forests
Among the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems, tropical dry forests serve as vital carbon sinks and are teeming with life that supports human existence….
Century-Old Maps of Ochlockonee Shoal Updated with Topobathymetric Lidar
New survey combats dangers to shipping in Florida’s Big Bend
A pronounced shallow area, known as the Ochlockonee Shoal, lies in the Gulf of Mexico about eight miles off the Big Bend of…
Airborne Lidar: A Tutorial for 2025
Part I: Lidar basics
Editor’s note: For a PDF showing the images, tables and equations click HERE Since the beginning of the 21st century, airborne lidar (light…
Finding Connecticut’s Historic Buildings In High-Density Lidar Point Clouds
Today’s point densities and processing tools facilitate new applications
Most familiar lidar applications, such as terrain modeling, land development, and hydrology, focus on the bare-earth model, a digital terrain model (DTM), which…
