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…
Category: From the Editor
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…
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….
To Have and to Hold
Geo Week 2020 Postponed
Our March/April edition has much to do with the Geo Week 2020 series of conferences, originally slated for March 22-26 in Washington D.C….
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit
USC Hosts Annual Showcase
On 28 February, I braved LA traffic to attend the Los Angeles Geospatial Summit 2020, a one-day event at the University of Southern…
2020 – Starting at the top
Never a News Famine in Silicon Valley
2020 started at the top for LIDAR Magazine! Managing editor Stewart Walker was invited to attend the GeoBuiz Summit, which took place from…
So Much to Read, See and Learn!
In addition to the contributions of valued partners and customers to our annual Aerial Showcase, this issue includes articles that are exemplars of…