What do you do when you need a specific technology that doesn’t yet exist? You build it. The project to build the Bathymetric…
Volume 11 Issue 5
December 2021
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FEATURES
12.27.2021
GeoWing Mapping Prospers with UAV-Photogrammetry
Bay Area startup executes lidar projects through partners
On a recent visit to several Bay Area lidar players1, I was privileged to meet up with Rebecca A. (Becky) Morton, co-founder and…
12.27.2021
Real-Time Surveying to Support NASA’s Artemis I Launch
Preparing for mission raises unique surveying challenge—a moving object
NASA plans to launch the Orion spacecraft on a 26-day mission around the moon via the Space Launch System, its new heavy-lift rocket,…
12.27.2021
Cloud Native Geospatial Lidar with the Cloud Optimized Point Cloud
Lidar consultancy offers efficacious access to big lidar datasets in the Cloud Most point-cloud processing tasks do not require all the data, but…
12.27.2021
DeepRoute on the Road to Making All Transportation Autonomous
Chinese integrator enjoys robotaxi success
Since LIDAR Magazine spoke with DeepRoute VP Nianqiu Liu in July 20201, the company has deployed robotaxis in Wuhan and Shenzhen, and received…
11.20.2021
A New Hybrid Product Approach: Aligning Project Specifications with UAS, Photogrammetry and Lidar
Woolpert makes best use of multiple data types in roadway surveys
This paper discusses research on a new and creative method of merging geospatial data from differing backgrounds and with varied accuracy specifications. The…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
12.27.2021
Mixed Feelings at Year’s End
Lidar shines despite global turbulence
We couldn’t hide disappointment as 2021 drew to a close. US politics are deadlocked. Travel remains risky and limited. There is uncertainty, indeed…
LAS Exchange
12.27.2021
In Memoriam: Martin Isenburg, 1972–2021
Lidar visionary and activist passes unexpectedly
“ His tools were easy to use; they worked and scaled; and they drove standards and became the foundation of countless lidar processing…
DEPARTMENTS
12.27.2021
Book Review: The Essentials of SAR
TomAger LLC, Lewes, Delaware, 2021. 253 x 178 mm, xvi + 291 pp, 257 color and black and white illustrations, 4 tables, index….