MIT Lincoln Laboratory is collecting robust post-disaster lidar datasets and applying advanced algorithms to these data to help FEMA assess damage. The technology…
Tag: Airborne
Need Drove Innovation for Solv3D
Use and sharing of geospatial data now made easy
Almost a decade ago, a small, forward-thinking surveying and engineering firm based in Calgary, Alberta began collecting large amounts of laser scanning data…
Lidar Enlightens the Search for Critical Minerals
Using lidar to search for important minerals turns decades of work into a few years.
Meeting the need for critical minerals, increasingly used in the production of a wide range of products in modern society, has never been…
Overcoming Hurdles to Modeling River Bathymetry
Topobathymetric lidar and hyperspectral imaging combine to deliver new, detailed insights into submerged terrain
Modeling the bathymetry of rivers presents significant challenges for GIS professionals, as they try to model submerged terrain with the same accuracy and…
Airborne Lidar for Archaeology in Central and South America
Teledyne Optech sensors map ancient civilizations under the rainforest
The rainforests in Central and South America give little indication of the civilizations that they’ve swallowed up. A few centuries ago these regions…
Geospatial Trends to Watch
Geospatial’s Next Wave of Innovation
There’s no question digital transformation is making geospatial technology increasingly relevant in industries globally, whether adding precision to a position, context to mass…
Singapore Smart Nation Embraces 3D Land Management
Orbit GT tools simplify management and use of mobile mapping data
As part of Singapore’s quest to be a smart nation, the Singapore Land Authority embarked on a 3D national mapping initiative in 2014,…
Wide Angle Blues
Earlier this year, I gave a talk on interpreting specifications of UAV lidar systems. I promised a few folks that I would write…
2019 LIDAR Leaders – Recap
and the winners are…
Earlier this year, the second annual Lidar Leader Awards ceremony was held at International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) in Denver. In cooperation with…
The DEM Users Manual, 3rd Edition
When Digital Elevation Model Technologies and Applications: The DEM Users Manual, 2nd Edition was published in 2007, topographic lidar was a new and…