Category Archives: Software

Leica BLK360 – Here’s How it Works

Posted on April 16, 2018 by lidar

Popular YouTuber and trained cinematographer Matt Workman has created a very practical and easy to understand video about Leica Geosystems BLK360. Bottom line – he thinks the BLK 360 has many applications in the film industry, particularly for pre-production . … Continue reading →

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Rice Students Develop Generic Drone Software

Posted on April 13, 2018 by lidar

A team of six Rice University electrical and computer engineering students have developed the hardware and software necessary to coordinate sensor-carrying drones. They have used relatively inexpensive drone components as the platform for demonstrating their software capability. “The system is … Continue reading →

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A New Common Language for Feature Extraction – OpenLSEF

Posted on April 12, 2018 by lidar

A fresh initiative to develop a common language for extracting information from a 3D point cloud is being referred to as OpenLSEF. The ASPRS is hosting a free webinar to explain this effort on April 27, 2018 at 12 PM … Continue reading →

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Driverless Vehicle Testing Programs are Flawed

Posted on March 30, 2018 by lidar

In an excellent article in Wired the author points out the mistakes being made in the design and execution of testing programs for self-driving vehicles. He quotes Martyn Thomas CBE, professor of information technology at Gresham College and fellow of … Continue reading →

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Pix4D Announces Agricultural Product – Pix4Dfields

Posted on March 29, 2018 by lidar

Pix4D recently announced Pix4Dfields, its first fully dedicated product for agriculture. A beta program is now open. The vision for the new product is “To give fast and accurate maps while in the field, with a simple yet powerful interface … Continue reading →

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Velocity Sensitive Lidar

Posted on March 26, 2018 by lidar

Blackmore Sensors and Analytics, based in (that high tech hotbed of fly fishing) Bozeman, MT has just received $18 million in series B financing to scale their frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) lidar and just as importantly the artificial perception software … Continue reading →

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VirtualGrid Releases VRMesh v10.0

Posted on March 16, 2018 by lidar

In many cases what people are looking for are surfaces, such as pavement, curb, sidewalk not millions of random 3D points. Manually fitting a surface to a point cloud requires experience and time. VirtualGrid has been working on automating the … Continue reading →

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Scale API Follow Up

Posted on March 7, 2018 by lidar

            Digital Journal recently interviewed Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of Scale API. When asked about the idea behind creating the API Wang responded: “The largest bottleneck for the development of high-performing perception algorithms … Continue reading →

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Topcon Acquires ClearEdge3D

Posted on February 21, 2018 by lidar

TOKYO, Japan – February 20, 2018 – Topcon Corporation, a world leader in positioning instruments for survey and construction, through its American subsidiary, has acquired all the outstanding shares of ClearEdge3D, Inc., a recognized technology leader in the engineering and … Continue reading →

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Sensor Fusion Annotation

Posted on February 20, 2018 by lidar

Are you looking for a way to jump start your machine learning perception project? Scale claims to deliver a sensor independent API that provides a number of powerful object recognition functions. It works with cameras, lidar and radar to accelerate … Continue reading →

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