Woolpert Senior Vice President Jeff Lovin has served as president of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) since March 2020….
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01.24.2021
Accuracies Amaze the Experts
Tough test of lidar sensors and aerial platforms
Technology continues to provide new and improved options for data collection in all areas of geospatial services, leading to better, more complete answers…
01.24.2021
OGC and its Point Cloud Domain Working Group
Geospatial standards experts embrace lidar
Lidar data is used to describe the real world or something existing at a location in the real world. The collected lidar point…
01.24.2021
Stormwater Management with Off-The-Shelf Lidar
Cost-effective hydrologic basin characterization using public lidar elevation data
Across the United States, state and local government agencies are funding the collection of lidar data to create high-resolution, high-accuracy digital elevation models….
01.24.2021
Cyberphysical Systems and Autonomous Mobility
Swiss physicist’s assessment of AV progress to date
The Swiss Physical Society (SPS) intermittently publishes short reports on events or publications of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW). Recently SATW…
01.24.2021
Surveying Inland Waterways: A Florida Case Study
Topobathymetric Lidar Outperforms Hydrographic Technologies
Since the first of the three editions of Digital Elevation Model Technologies and Applications: The DEM Users Manual was published by the American…
01.12.2021
Handheld 3D Imager Supports Historical Façade Restoration
Reality capture brings fresh approach to ancient craft
Jim McMahon, president of Structural Stone Concepts, specializes in the historic façade preservation of schools and other buildings in New York City. Working…
01.12.2021
FMCW Lidar Seeks Fortune in the Autonomous Vehicle Market
Alternative method to time-of-flight
As autonomous vehicles approach widespread deployment, lidar technology continues to be one of the crucial enabling technologies. Lidar is often described as the…
12.04.2020
Lidar Shows Mayan Civilization in a New Light
Archaeologists solve some mysteries of the Maya
Bordered on the north and west by Mexico and on the east by Belize, the lush forests of Guatemala’s Petén region have long…
11.01.2020
Penetrating the Hawaiian Canopy
The challenge of lidar mapping in paradise
After three years of planning and execution by multiple partners, most of the Big Island of Hawaii—from its steep, craggy oceanside cliffs and…
