Dr. Martin Isenburg, 49, of Rodgau, Germany, committed suicide at his vacation home in Sámara, Costa Rica about September 9th, 2021, after a…
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Short-Range Lidar: Opportunities and Challenges
Innovation revolutionizes sensor size
Most people associate lidar with long-range applications: aerial mapping, or those domes atop experimental autonomous vehicles. But lidar’s most exciting story may come…
New Multi-Sensor/Software Combo Poised for Autonomous Driving Market
Neural Propulsion Systems proclaims promising innovation
On 30 January 2021, a draft press release from Bay Area start-up Neural Propulsion Systems (NPS) hit the magazine’s inbox1. The fledgling company…
Why Optical Phased Array is the Future of Lidar for Autonomous Vehicles
Lidar enables the future of AVs—it is a key technology that will help make self-driving cars safe, efficient, and reliable. Until recently, however,…
Cities Branch out to Trim Trees
New workflow tames hazardous vegetation
Dan Hicks, director of operations for the Parks Department in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, oversees several city assets from arenas to forestry. Every…
Accuracy Assessment of the Microdrones mdLiDAR3000DL
Testing sUAS-lidar system for large-scale mapping
Note: See the PDF for more graphics Lidar systems based on small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) are rapidly advancing. This research investigates a Microdrones…
Lisa Murray, Lidar Impressario: Reflections on Collaboration
Diversified Communications’ geospatial lead moves on
Most readers of LIDAR Magazine have attended a Diversified Communications (DC) event, International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) being the best known. Many of…
Israeli Automotive Lidar Supplier Leapfrogs into Sight
Innoviz lidar’s price point must raise geospatial eyebrows
We have often acknowledged in these pages the difference that lidar suppliers focused on the automotive sector, on both ADAS (advanced driver assistance…
Mapping Coastal California
USACE partners with federal and private organizations to optimize data collection and use on the Pacific coast
California’s 1352 kilometers of coastline present varied and challenging mapping environments. These range from the sandy beaches of Malibu to the rocky coasts…
New Views of California’s Forests
Monitoring wildfire hazards with satellites, lidar and AI
I suspect I have a sympathetic audience in these pages when I state that lidar is a premier technology for forest mapping and…