I had the privilege, along with publisher Allen Cheves and professional land surveyor Jason Foose, County Surveyor, Mohave County Public Works, Arizona, to…
Author: Dr. A. Stewart Walker
Autonomous Vehicles Operational Thanks to Lidar
May Mobility relies on home-grown sensor fusion to guide vehicles on fixed route
When Managing Editor Stewart Walker first visited Cepton Technologies to investigate their efforts to build on their automotive lidar experience with a sensor…
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…
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…
Unexpected Nuggets
This month’s editorial is a tad threadbare because I have been on a long vacation in Europe, but this was not without its…
Book Review: LiDAR Remote Sensing and Applications
The authors of this short, newly published book are full professors, Dong at University of North Texas and Chen, University of Hawaii. Both…
Phoenix Lidar Systems: Excellence in UAV Integration
Phoenix Lidar Systems: Excellence in UAV Integration
Managing Editor Stewart Walker met with Phoenix LiDAR in their Los Angeles office, profiling a young company that leads the market in the…
Cepton Technologies
The Silicon Valley Approach to Lidar Sensor Development
Cepton Technologies, Inc. is a fast-growing startup, founded in July 2016 to provide high-performance, high-resolution 3D lidar solutions for automotive, industrial and mapping applications. It produces four lidar sensors, the HR80T, HR80W and the brand new Vista for ground-based, primarily automotive applications, and the SORA 200 for UAV-based airborne use. Cepton stresses that its sensing principle has no rotation and thus no friction.
Changing of the Guard – Addressing Complementary Technologies
Following his accession to the chair of the Institute for Photogrammetry (ifp) at the University of Stuttgart, Professor Uwe Soergel chaired the 56th…