The steady climb up the slope of improving sensor technology is generating better geospatial solutions, especially in mobile mapping and machine control, and…
Volume 8 Issue 3
FEATURES
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…
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…
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…
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…
Coastal Monitoring Project Provides Blueprint for Future Surveys
Though it happened almost 25 years ago, the dramatic collapse of Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, United Kingdom remains a pertinent reminder of…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
Unexpected Nuggets
This month’s editorial is a tad threadbare because I have been on a long vacation in Europe, but this was not without its…
Random Points
Convoluted Thinking
Neural Networks - Part II
This month I was going to discuss how to fly and process LIDAR data for 27 cents per km2 but Allen (Cheves, the…
DEPARTMENTS
Book Review: LiDAR Remote Sensing and Applications
The authors of this short, newly published book are full professors, Dong at University of North Texas and Chen, University of Hawaii. Both…
Points & Pixels: Bluesky Esri UK Partnership to Support Roll-Out of 5G and Full Fibre Networks
Aerial mapping company Bluesky and Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, have come together to offer a range of software, services and…