For this installment of quick-takes, we caught up with Troy Hittle of senseFly USA, manufacturer of America’s most popular fixed-wing drone platform, to…
Volume 9 Issue 5
October 2019
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FEATURES
11.08.2019
UAVs flying high
Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2019
A frenetic conference year lost no momentum as LIDAR Magazine attended Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2019, held in the usual Westgate Las Vegas…
10.31.2019
Democratizing Photogrammetry
Quick-takes with Phillipe Simard of SimActive, Inc.
Thanks in no small part to drones, more and more professionals are becoming interested in photogrammetric data collection. For many, once data has…
10.24.2019
Time on the Rails
Quick-takes with Joshua France of RIEGL USA
Between October 14-17, RIEGL USA hosted their first North American Training Symposium in Orlando, Florida, an event aimed at bringing power users together…
10.07.2019
SICK: The World’s Largest One-Stop-Shop for Industrial Lidar Solutions
Incredibly durable sensors known for toughness and quality
SICK GmbH, founded by Dr. Erwin Sick in 1946, is a large European manufacturer of sensors and sensor solutions, offering a wide portfolio…
10.07.2019
Automation in UAV-Lidar Unleashes Business Potential
Phoenix LiDAR Systems powers Precision Aerial Compliance Solutions
At the end of 2017, managing editor Stewart Walker visited Phoenix LiDAR Systems to learn about their core competency in integrating lidar systems…
10.07.2019
GNSS/IMU—The Heart of Lidar Integration
Geodetics prospers through science and balanced customer base
Geodetics, Inc. is a technology company based in San Diego, California. Its visionaries are scientists who are experts in geodesy and GNSS/IMU integration….
10.07.2019
Blackmore Leads the Way with FM Lidar for AV Applications
Measuring velocity on every data point
Perception for any robotics task involves both the inference and prediction of reality from a set of imperfect sensors. All sensors seek to…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
10.16.2019
ASPRS Pecora 21 – ISRSE 38
Remote sensing of critical changes to our planet
ASPRS held its 21st William T. Pecora Memorial Remote Sensing Symposium in conjunction with the 38th International Symposium for Remote Sensing and Environment…
From the Editor
10.16.2019
Quantum Acquisition Summit 4.0
More types of data more often
LIDAR Magazine was invited to attend Quantum Spatial’s fourth user conference, entitled Acquisition Summit 4.0, in the university town of Corvallis, Oregon, on…
From the Editor
10.08.2019
Action for Planet Earth
Scribblings from Stuttgart - INTERGEO 2019
After a weekend in rural Switzerland with my old Leica Geosystems colleague Peter Fricker and his family – Peter was involved in sales…
From the Editor
10.07.2019
57th Photogrammetric Week
Scribblings from Stuttgart - PhoWo 2019
Thanks to a kind invitation from Prof. Dr. Uwe Sörgel, I was able to attend the 57th Photogrammetric Week in Stuttgart, capital of…
From the Publisher
10.07.2019
The More Things Change…
LIDAR Magazine—so what’s that about? Over the years, when asked this question, I’ve honed my response to inquire as to one’s familiarity with…
Market Forecast
10.07.2019
Market Report
Lidar Market to Reach USD 6 Billion by 2024
Key Takeaways: • The lidar market is on track for fast growth, driven by robotic vehicles • Massive investments show high expectations for…
On the Road
10.07.2019
Relevancy in the Age of Change
Recently I heard someone describe my organization as a 36 year-old startup company. That is a pretty good way to define what is…
DEPARTMENTS
10.07.2019
State of the Art: Drone Mapping
with Lewis Graham
Few technological processes have evolved as quickly as drone-based mapping—as a result, even fewer people can consistently predict where it’s all headed, fully…