Tag: Airborne

09.09.2025

Airborne Lidar: An Evolution of Technology and Applications

In the coming months, Hexagon will unveil the next-generation single-photon lidar (SPL) airborne sensor. An upgrade from our extremely popular Leica SPL100 wide-area…

08.30.2025

Leveraging InSAR Technology to Optimize Lidar Data Collection

How InSAR improves efficiency, coverage, and cost-effectiveness in lidar surveys

InSAR: an old technology with new applications Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), once limited to specialized research and military reconnaissance, has emerged as…

08.30.2025

Elevations for the Nations Part III

Understanding Europe’s varied approach to lidar mapping

Mapping activities for the United States are centrally regulated for a land area of 3.8 million square miles, whereas lidar coverage of Europe’s…

06.30.2025

Airborne Lidar: A Tutorial for 2025

Part III: Bathymetric lidar

Airborne laser bathymetry (ALB), also referred to as bathymetric laser scanning or bathymetric lidar…

05.27.2025

59th Photogrammetric Week, Stuttgart, 1-4 April 2025

Standard of presentations hits new high

Readers of this journal know the Photogrammetric Week (Photogrammetrische Woche – PhoWo) and its 116-year history (Fritsch, 2005). The 59th one attracted 212…

02.09.2025

Airborne Lidar: A Tutorial for 2025

Part II: Integrated Systems

Editor’s note: For a PDF showing the images, tables and equations click HERE The first part of the tutorial (lidar basics) reviewed the…

02.09.2025

The Case for High Point Density Lidar

Does the economic law of diminishing marginal returns apply to lidar point density? Economics 101 teaches us the law (or principle) of diminishing…

12.30.2024

Mapping Green Carbon

How lidar is saving Ecuador’s tropical dry forests

Among the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems, tropical dry forests serve as vital carbon sinks and are teeming with life that supports human existence….