As part of our series on lidar players in Silicon Valley, we were keen to talk to Intel Corporation. Our curiosity about the…
Author: Dr. A. Stewart Walker
Intelligence at the Speed of Light
Silicon Valley start-up enjoys automotive investment
LIDAR Magazine last visited Cepton Technologies in San Jose at the end of 2017, just as the firm was preparing to move into…
Technology Helps Combat Covid-19
CrowdVision’s solutions monitor social distancing
LIDAR Magazine attended a webinar moderated by the organizers of the INTERGEO trade show and noted how various enterprises were exploring the use…
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…
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Many of us continue on lock-down, while the wait for definitive good news seems interminable. Some localities and non-essential sectors of the economy…
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….