Agriculture, one of humanity’s oldest industries, remained largely unchanged for tens of thousands of years, until a century ago. Then, it underwent a…
Category: Feature
11.15.2021
Lidar for Housing Valuations
Zibber uses Leica BLK2GO to provide fast house measurements to Dutch realtors
Lidar is now being used to address an age-old problem that impacts nearly everybody—real-estate valuations. As accuracy improves and form factors get smaller,…
11.15.2021
Watching the Great Lakes Shorelines
USACE National Coastal Mapping Program provides critical, repeat-mapping data to address regional monitoring needs
Record high water levels in the Great Lakes of the United States increase shoreline erosion, reduce efficacy of natural shoreline protection, and threaten…
11.15.2021
Energetic Data Acquisition in Florida
Updates from agencies on lidar collections
The spring 2021 FL-ASPRS/UF Lidar Workshop was held remotely on 17 June 2021 and attended by 140 participants. While the majority were from…
10.30.2021
In Memoriam: Martin Isenburg, 1972-2021
Lidar visionary and activist passes unexpectedly
Dr. Martin Isenburg, 49, of Rodgau, Germany, committed suicide at his vacation home in Sámara, Costa Rica about September 9th, 2021, after a…
08.18.2021
Short-Range Lidar: Opportunities and Challenges
Innovation revolutionizes sensor size
Most people associate lidar with long-range applications: aerial mapping, or those domes atop experimental autonomous vehicles. But lidar’s most exciting story may come…
08.18.2021
New Multi-Sensor/Software Combo Poised for Autonomous Driving Market
Neural Propulsion Systems proclaims promising innovation
On 30 January 2021, a draft press release from Bay Area start-up Neural Propulsion Systems (NPS) hit the magazine’s inbox1. The fledgling company…
08.18.2021
Why Optical Phased Array is the Future of Lidar for Autonomous Vehicles
Lidar enables the future of AVs—it is a key technology that will help make self-driving cars safe, efficient, and reliable. Until recently, however,…
08.18.2021
Cities Branch out to Trim Trees
New workflow tames hazardous vegetation
Dan Hicks, director of operations for the Parks Department in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, oversees several city assets from arenas to forestry. Every…
08.18.2021
Accuracy Assessment of the Microdrones mdLiDAR3000DL
Testing sUAS-lidar system for large-scale mapping
Note: See the PDF for more graphics Lidar systems based on small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) are rapidly advancing. This research investigates a Microdrones…
