In Senegal, one of the world’s largest titanium and zirconium mines is always on the move. The French mining company Eramet, which operates…
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USDA Exceeds Petabyte Milestone for Processing Lidar Data
LP360 leveraged for efficient lidar data management and advanced geospatial analysis
How did the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) address the challenge of processing an enormous volume of lidar data, modernize the output, then manage and catalog the data for its stakeholders?
Florida Lidar Tradition Continues
A synopsis of the 16th UF/FL-ASPRS Lidar Workshop
The Florida Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (FL-ASPRS) and the University of Florida (UF) Geomatics Division held the…
Lidar Brings Monticello into Focus
Thomas Jefferson Foundation commends discoveries from laser scanning
Today, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello ranks as one of the most important historical sites in the United States. Two centuries ago, Monticello was a…
3D AI in the Lidar HD Production Process
How AI improves the point-cloud classification process at IGN, France’s national mapping agency The Lidar HD program Designed to meet the needs of…
Digital Twins Open Up New Possibilities For Rainforest Conservation
R-evolution uses Hexagon airborne and terrestrial lidar sensors as fundamental data sources
Imagine a digital twin. Perhaps you are imagining the digital representation of a chip inside a phone or of a manufacturing shop floor,…
Lidar DEMs for Continuous Flow Surface Hydrography Feature Extraction
A comparison of different lidar acquisitions in Pinellas County, Florida
Surface-water modeling from lidar-derived DEMs Over the past 20 years, lidar-derived digital elevation models (DEMs) have become the staple of surface-water hydrography and…
Decades of Historic Data Finished
Ohio turns to elevation-derived hydrography
Accurate geospatial data on surface water and drainage is crucial for planning, engineering, and daily operational activities for every county in every state….
Best Practices in Evaluating Geospatial Mapping Accuracy According to the New ASPRS Accuracy Standards
Accuracy assessments must take errors in ground control network into account
This highlight article was inspired by a comment I received from Richard C. Maher, PLS, president of KDM Meridian: “I attended both of…
Finns Use Lidar in Canada’s Northern Archipelago
Mosquitoes and improvization—arctic field work to scan Muskox Valley
In the historical era of expeditions, simply reaching the unknown and dangerous destination was usually one of the biggest challenges. Scientific research was…