If you feel every business but yours has a drone, here’s why: the market for commercial drones is growing faster than even the…
Category: Feature
11.08.2019
The Right Tool for the Job
Quick-takes with Troy Hittle of senseFly USA
For this installment of quick-takes, we caught up with Troy Hittle of senseFly USA, manufacturer of America’s most popular fixed-wing drone platform, to…
11.08.2019
UAVs flying high
Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2019
A frenetic conference year lost no momentum as LIDAR Magazine attended Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2019, held in the usual Westgate Las Vegas…
10.31.2019
Democratizing Photogrammetry
Quick-takes with Phillipe Simard of SimActive, Inc.
Thanks in no small part to drones, more and more professionals are becoming interested in photogrammetric data collection. For many, once data has…
10.24.2019
Time on the Rails
Quick-takes with Joshua France of RIEGL USA
Between October 14-17, RIEGL USA hosted their first North American Training Symposium in Orlando, Florida, an event aimed at bringing power users together…
10.07.2019
SICK: The World’s Largest One-Stop-Shop for Industrial Lidar Solutions
Incredibly durable sensors known for toughness and quality
SICK GmbH, founded by Dr. Erwin Sick in 1946, is a large European manufacturer of sensors and sensor solutions, offering a wide portfolio…
10.07.2019
Automation in UAV-Lidar Unleashes Business Potential
Phoenix LiDAR Systems powers Precision Aerial Compliance Solutions
At the end of 2017, managing editor Stewart Walker visited Phoenix LiDAR Systems to learn about their core competency in integrating lidar systems…
10.07.2019
GNSS/IMU—The Heart of Lidar Integration
Geodetics prospers through science and balanced customer base
Geodetics, Inc. is a technology company based in San Diego, California. Its visionaries are scientists who are experts in geodesy and GNSS/IMU integration….
10.07.2019
Blackmore Leads the Way with FM Lidar for AV Applications
Measuring velocity on every data point
Perception for any robotics task involves both the inference and prediction of reality from a set of imperfect sensors. All sensors seek to…
08.09.2019
Lidar Data Supports Coastal Resilience Planning and Funding
Coastal Communities Require Highly Accurate Elevation Data for Storm-Surge Modeling and Stormwater Initiatives
Coastal resilience is defined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Ocean Service as proactively building a community’s capacity to “bounce…
