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Volume 10 Issue 5
FEATURES
FMCW Lidar Seeks Fortune in the Autonomous Vehicle Market
Alternative method to time-of-flight
As autonomous vehicles approach widespread deployment, lidar technology continues to be one of the crucial enabling technologies. Lidar is often described as the…
Lidar Shows Mayan Civilization in a New Light
Archaeologists solve some mysteries of the Maya
Bordered on the north and west by Mexico and on the east by Belize, the lush forests of Guatemala’s Petén region have long…
Penetrating the Hawaiian Canopy
The challenge of lidar mapping in paradise
After three years of planning and execution by multiple partners, most of the Big Island of Hawaii—from its steep, craggy oceanside cliffs and…
LAS: What’s on the Horizon
How the LAS Working Group works
Since its introduction in 2003, the LAS file format has become the de facto standard format for point-cloud data, with support for it…
Energy at Quanergy
Markets accelerate beyond automotive
Readers of LIDAR Magazine know that suppliers of lidar sensors who cater primarily to automotive customers have been making a big difference to…
Measuring Maria’s Havoc
Evaluating hurricane damage with multi-temporal lidar
USGS and Florida lidar standards The National Enhanced Elevation Assessment Report1 (NEEA) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) indicated that the greatest national…
Lidar Initiatives at the National Center of Cartography Romania
2D–3D data fusion research in the VOLTA project
National Center of Cartography Romania The National Center of Cartography Romania (CNC) offers specialized technical support to develop and update geodetic and cartographic…
AV Lidar Needs Software Too
DeepRoute spearheads global AV industry with innovative technologies
DeepRoute.ai Ltd., which is based in Shenzen, China, with facilities in Beijing and Fremont, California, takes us further into an area that has…
COLUMNS
XYZ Exchange
ASPRS LAS Working Group
LAS To Have New Classification Lookup VLR
The LAS Working Group’s (LWG) meeting on 16 November 2020 meeting focused primarily on the updated Classification Lookup Variable Length Record (VLR) proposed…
From the Editor
Remote Sensing and Wildfires
Tools that make a difference
Monday 2 November saw the opening session of RS Fire 2020: The Remote Sensing & Wildland Fire Symposium Series, an event run by…
From the Editor
Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness
It seems to have been an interminable summer, followed by a prolonged Fall. The political situation in several countries has hit severe turbulence….
Random Points
Has Lidar Viz Come of Age?
The nice thing about hardware is you can pick it up, feel its heft, move it around in your hands, scare the booth…
From the Editor
More gems from lidar online events
Fall 2020 LiDAR Workshop and more
I’ve written before, on this site, as well as in the print editions, about the stream of rich content that has become available…