Hurricanes, flooding, landslides, wildfires and erupting volcanoes—rarely a week goes by when you don’t see headlines about these types of natural disasters, which…
Category: Feature
07.17.2018
Ron Roth Helps Steer Single-Photon
A Tale of People, Acquisitions and Technology
In the early years of this century, Leica Geosystems’ lidar guru Ron Roth and LIDAR Magazine managing editor Stewart Walker were both employed…
07.17.2018
Vital Deployment of Lidar Data for Emergency Response–Rapid, Effective, Essential
Knowledge is power, and the more we know the stronger we become. In times of distress or disaster, acquiring highly accurate information becomes…
07.16.2018
Evolution of Point Cloud
Wikipedia has defined a “Point Cloud” as a set of data points in some coordinate system. In a three-dimensional coordinate system, these points…
07.16.2018
Captured Once, Used Often
Mobile mapping reduces costs, increases efficiency
When mobile mapping solutions were introduced in the year 2000, the city of Amsterdam saw many uses for the 360-degree geo-referenced images. Mobile…
06.22.2018
Fusion of Sensor Data Advances Geospatial Technology
The steady climb up the slope of improving sensor technology is generating better geospatial solutions, especially in mobile mapping and machine control, and…
06.22.2018
How ASPRS Helps Guide the Lidar Industry
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is a scientific association with a proud and storied history that dates back to…
06.22.2018
Airborne Lidar Flies High in Manitoba
The rising popularity of surveys using UAVs has led to great advances in photogrammetric techniques. Airborne lidar, however, still leads the way when…
06.22.2018
The RIEGL miniVUX-1UAV—Charting the Evolution of RIEGL Sensors and Systems
Over the last five decades, few can claim to have devoted more to the development of lidar technology than Dr. Johannes Riegl, founder…
06.22.2018
Capturing the Past—Historic Livermore Winery Building Lives on in a 3D Point Cloud
Livermore, California has a famous light…or more precisely, a lightbulb. For more than a century now the 4-watt light bulb, called the Centennial…
