The OpenTopography Portal is reporting that it appears Google is making use of bare earth terrain...
Archive - July 2010
Shape Extraction from Point Clouds in AutoCAD
Autodesk Labs has recently announced the availability of a new "Point Cloud Shape Extraction Plug...
LiDAR in Space
A research team from NASA Ames is on Devon Island exploring the Haughton Crater with the goal of...
Laser Scanning for Airport Obstruction Surveys
The Transportation Research Board has issued a research report on the use of LiDAR for airport...
Israeli Wind Lidar Startup Gets $9 Million
Pentalum Technologies, Ltd., an Israeli firm recently raised $9 million in first round financing to...
Laser Scanning and Architectural Details
One company, Streamline Automation has developed a complete system for creating the most intricate...
Fusing LiDAR & Hyperspectral to Determine Land Cover
This research looked at the potential benefits of fusing hyperspectral imagery with LiDAR data to...
Using Full-Waveform LiDAR To Improve DTM Accuracy
Using the full-waveform methodology they were able to accurately label 92% of the terrain echoes...
“Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning”
This is the title of a new text book edited by George Vosselman and Hans-Gerd Maas, published by...
California Coast to be Mapped with LiDAR
NOAA will supervise the $3.3 million effort to LiDAR map California's entire coastline.
Assessing Wind Farm Locations with LiDAR
Mainstream Renewable Power, has completed the first extensive wind assessment campaign in Latin...
LiDAR-Guided Full Size Helicopter
Now this is impressive - the first full size, fully-autonomous helicopter flight guided by, you...
Laser Scanning and Blue Marble
In the past 24 hours I have seen 2 announcements - one from Optech and one from Topcon concerning...
Mobile Laser Scanning Software – Certainty 3D
Ted Knaak has spent the past couple of years building a new software company - Certainty 3D.
NASA LiDAR Access System (NLAS)
In anticipation of 2 new NASA earth observation satellite missions, a new online web portal will...
Laser Scanning the Madison County Bridges
Four of the six remaining Madison County, Iowa bridges will be laser scanned for historical...
Hexagon to Link Laser Scanning with CAD
1. Hexagon, parent of Leica Geosystems acquired Intergraph this week. 2. Part of the strategic...