The success of an aerial acquisition project, whether lidar or imagery, depends on taking advantage of acquisition days to turn around the project…
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04.01.2021
Taking Flight in the Caribbean
Kucera performs lidar survey for Jamaican airport
Some of most interesting yet logistically difficult work for US suppliers of aerial lidar data are flyovers beyond the continental United States. In…
04.01.2021
Setting a New Standard for Topobathymetric Surveys
ASTRALiTe facilitates UAV lidar surveys of land-water interface
Water is a vital resource for all cultures, and many people live, work, and play near the intersection between water and land. This…
04.01.2021
Seagrass Changes in St. Joseph Bay
Hurricane Michael and biological drivers of change in critical Florida ecosystem
Seagrass’s role in Florida Contrary to their common name, seagrasses are technically marine monocotyledons, which means that they are a flowering plant that…
04.01.2021
Mobile Lidar for Roadway Characteristics Inventory
Using mobile lidar for Roadway Characteristics Inventory (RCI) projects seems ill-advised. On deeper examination, however, it’s a viable solution. Based on the name…
04.01.2021
‘Virtual’ ASPRS President Jeff Lovin Shares Industry Reflections, Forecast
Woolpert Senior Vice President Jeff Lovin has served as president of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) since March 2020….
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…
