How did the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) address the challenge of processing an enormous volume of lidar data, modernize the output, then manage and catalog the data for its stakeholders?
Category: Feature
06.01.2024
Florida Lidar Tradition Continues
A synopsis of the 16th UF/FL-ASPRS Lidar Workshop
The Florida Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (FL-ASPRS) and the University of Florida (UF) Geomatics Division held the…
05.04.2024
Lidar Brings Monticello into Focus
Thomas Jefferson Foundation commends discoveries from laser scanning
Today, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello ranks as one of the most important historical sites in the United States. Two centuries ago, Monticello was a…
05.04.2024
3D AI in the Lidar HD Production Process
How AI improves the point-cloud classification process at IGN, France’s national mapping agency The Lidar HD program Designed to meet the needs of…
05.04.2024
Digital Twins Open Up New Possibilities For Rainforest Conservation
R-evolution uses Hexagon airborne and terrestrial lidar sensors as fundamental data sources
Imagine a digital twin. Perhaps you are imagining the digital representation of a chip inside a phone or of a manufacturing shop floor,…
05.04.2024
Lidar DEMs for Continuous Flow Surface Hydrography Feature Extraction
A comparison of different lidar acquisitions in Pinellas County, Florida
Surface-water modeling from lidar-derived DEMs Over the past 20 years, lidar-derived digital elevation models (DEMs) have become the staple of surface-water hydrography and…
05.04.2024
Decades of Historic Data Finished
Ohio turns to elevation-derived hydrography
Accurate geospatial data on surface water and drainage is crucial for planning, engineering, and daily operational activities for every county in every state….
05.04.2024
Best Practices in Evaluating Geospatial Mapping Accuracy According to the New ASPRS Accuracy Standards
Accuracy assessments must take errors in ground control network into account
This highlight article was inspired by a comment I received from Richard C. Maher, PLS, president of KDM Meridian: “I attended both of…
02.04.2024
Finns Use Lidar in Canada’s Northern Archipelago
Mosquitoes and improvization—arctic field work to scan Muskox Valley
In the historical era of expeditions, simply reaching the unknown and dangerous destination was usually one of the biggest challenges. Scientific research was…
12.31.2023
Transformed Trajectories
Applanix strengthens integration, pushes processing boundaries
As an industry leader in mobile mapping solutions, Trimble Applanix is well known for its pioneering advances in the GNSS/inertial space for land,…
