Coastal resilience is defined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Ocean Service as proactively building a community’s capacity to “bounce…
Volume 9 Issue 4
August 2019
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FEATURES
08.09.2019
From All Sides
Integrating laser scanning and UAV data gives investigators a new 3D view
No one would dispute that courage is at the core of any police officer. It takes a certain braveness to dress for a…
08.09.2019
Skytec Completes Frigid Upper Peninsula Hybrid UAS Success
Longer flights and lidar payloads yield consistent data acquisition for Tennessee team
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…
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,…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
08.09.2019
Enjoying the Energy
In the last issue, we reflected on the rambunctious nature of our industry and the likelihood that it will enjoy rapid growth over…
Random Points
08.09.2019
Let’s all do the Z bump!
I just returned from the summer meeting of the Transportation Research Board’s AFB-80 committee. This is a standing committee that deals with high…
DEPARTMENTS
08.09.2019
Notable Quotables
HxGN Live 2019 During HxGN Live, held this past June in Las Vegas, Nevada, Managing Editor Stewart Walker caught up with Carl-Thomas Schneider,…
08.09.2019
Points & Pixels
RIEGL Invests in New Office and Production Facilities New, additional facility expansions at the headquarters in Austria as well as a new facility…