LIDAR Magazine, unsurprisingly, is focused on lidar, but we like to publish about other active sensors too. We have tried for some years…
Category: From the Editor
07.23.2025
Hexagon LIVE Global 2025, Las Vegas, 16-19 June 2025: A Retrospective Part 3
Geospatial behemoth delivers innovations and updates in fine setting – lidar security
In my pursuit of lidar goings-on at Hexagon LIVE Global 2025, and thanks to my hosts Hexagon and WeAreTFD, I interviewed Radek Zachoval,…
07.23.2025
Hexagon LIVE Global 2025, Las Vegas, 16-19 June 2025: A Retrospective Part 2
Geospatial behemoth delivers innovations and updates in fine setting – the airborne sensors
We lidar people must remember that a Hexagon user event is much broader than it used to be. There’s far more than surveying…
06.30.2025
All Along the Pipeline
Earlier this spring, I had the good fortune of attending the 59th Photogrammetric Week in Stuttgart1. Spectacular in every sense of the word,…
02.27.2025
Biggest Geo Week Ever
A milestone event for geospatial technologies
Denver provided a bitterly cold destination for Geo Week on 10-12 February 2025. Lows as curmudgeonly as 5°F (-15°C) were insufferable for those…
02.10.2025
Celebrating Lidar Worldwide
This issue was released at the Geo Week conference in Denver on 10–12 February. By no coincidence, this year’s event concludes on World…
12.30.2024
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…
09.22.2024
Sensor Integration Celebration
Considerate of this edition’s wide-scale distribution at Intergeo 2024, held in Stuttgart, Germany on 24-26 September, we have endeavored to imbue the following…
09.16.2024
An empty plinth
Ron Roth departs Leica Geosystems/Hexagon
After shepherding nine generations of airborne topographic lidar systems, three generations of hybrid imaging/lidar and one airborne imaging sensor, Ron Roth has departed…
09.16.2024
UN-GGIM 2024
14th session of the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
Along with roughly 350 others, I was invited to represent ISPRS at the 14th session of the UN Committee of Experts on Global…
