When it comes to determining what a particular object is, nothing beats a personal inspection. With a ground survey, one can see the…
Volume 8 Issue 5
October 2018
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FEATURES
09.24.2018
Autonomous Vehicles Operational Thanks to Lidar
May Mobility relies on home-grown sensor fusion to guide vehicles on fixed route
When Managing Editor Stewart Walker first visited Cepton Technologies to investigate their efforts to build on their automotive lidar experience with a sensor…
09.24.2018
UAS Data Becomes Increasingly Valuable for Worksite Monitoring
Commercial Role of UAS Expands
In 2013, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) predicted that from 2015-2025 the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the…
09.24.2018
Subsurface Utilities Meet Mobile Lidar
There has been a dramatic growth in the past decade in subsurface utility mapping, but the need for improved utility location continues to…
09.24.2018
Evolution of Point Cloud—Part 2
In the first part of this paper, the various methods of creating point clouds from laser scanners and cameras were discussed. Additionally we…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
09.24.2018
Summer Highs
I had the privilege, along with publisher Allen Cheves and professional land surveyor Jason Foose, County Surveyor, Mohave County Public Works, Arizona, to…
Random Points
09.24.2018
You Are Breaking Up!
I am writing this from our summer camp on Lake Wheeler in northern Alabama. After a hard day of playing on the lake…
DEPARTMENTS
09.24.2018
Points & Pixels
International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) and Lidar Magazine are excited to announce the second annual Lidar Leader Awards, which will be presented at…