During a frigid late-November trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,the Skytec team needed UAS and lidar equipment to perform well in harsh weather. The…
Category: Feature
08.09.2019
Geomagnetic Declination Using Land Surveys, Lidar, and Stone Walls
My first experience with stone walls was as a young kid (6-10 years old) living in South Deerfield, NH. The family home was…
08.09.2019
Cloud-hosted Web-based Lidar Data Storage and Dissemination Solutions—Part 1
The increasing use of lidar in multiple applications has resulted in a flood of temporal lidar data and has created the logistical challenge…
08.09.2019
SureStar Lidar
Chinese player excels in lightweight sensors
Beijing SureStar Technology Co. Ltd. is headquartered in the northwest corner of Beijing, where you can find many high-tech heavyweights, such as Huawei,…
06.10.2019
AXIS GeoSpatial Leans on Lidar to Sharpen Competitive Edge
High-definition lidar finds favor with discriminating customers
Changes in technology are a frequent occurrence in today’s geospatial services world. Companies utilizing these technologies find themselves striving to stay ahead of…
05.18.2019
How Lidar Could Transform Disaster Recovery
MIT Lincoln Laboratory assists FEMA with damage assessment
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is collecting robust post-disaster lidar datasets and applying advanced algorithms to these data to help FEMA assess damage. The technology…
05.18.2019
Need Drove Innovation for Solv3D
Use and sharing of geospatial data now made easy
Almost a decade ago, a small, forward-thinking surveying and engineering firm based in Calgary, Alberta began collecting large amounts of laser scanning data…
05.08.2019
Lidar Enlightens the Search for Critical Minerals
Using lidar to search for important minerals turns decades of work into a few years.
Meeting the need for critical minerals, increasingly used in the production of a wide range of products in modern society, has never been…
05.08.2019
Overcoming Hurdles to Modeling River Bathymetry
Topobathymetric lidar and hyperspectral imaging combine to deliver new, detailed insights into submerged terrain
Modeling the bathymetry of rivers presents significant challenges for GIS professionals, as they try to model submerged terrain with the same accuracy and…
05.01.2019
From the Archive: Peering Through Time with Laser Scanners
Sophisticated as-built surveys gradually reveal the mysteries of gothic cathedrals
On April 15th, global news outlets bellowed out reports of a fire racing through Notre Dame cathedral—as panic ensued, a handful of reporters…
