As part of an effort by NIST’s Physical Measurement Laboratory to produce an international...
Archive - May 2016
A Day to Remember
Here in the United States we are celebrating Memorial Day. It’s a day to remember the people...
Using Spaceborne Lidar to Improve Climate Models
From this paper by two Korean researchers: “Canopy height is closely related to biomass and...
3D Printed Map of London
San Francisco-based programmer Andrew Godwin has found a way to use the British government’s LIDAR...
Rock Art Documented in 3D
Archaeologists at the University of York have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest...
Virtual Reality Crime Scenes
Researchers from Staffordshire University’s Centre of Archaeology and Forensic and Crime Science...
Laser Scanning – Based Bridge Assessment
The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that considers the...
NASA’s EAARL Upgraded
The original National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Experimental Advanced Airborne...
3D Roof Reconstruction from Lidar
This is an interesting research paper written by a group of Chinese researchers who are also trying...
Estimating Crop Biomass from Lidar
This research team from Chain and Canada looked at the effects of a number of lidar data collection...
Forensic Competency Testing
This is something different. One of the items being offered at the upcoming HxGN LIVE user...
Chimney Rock
A group of researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder want to make it possible for everyone...
Lasers or Cameras for Pavement Analysis?
This reminds me of my masters thesis on skid resistance of asphalt pavements. A University of Texas...
Voxel Group Feature Extraction
The search for the Holy Grail continues. This paper from a group of researchers in China describes...
Apple Invests $1 Billion in Didi
Apple’s announced a few days ago that it is investing $1 billion in Didi Chuxing...
As-Damaged BIMs
A group of Israeli researchers are working on developing algorithms to predict the damage states of...
HxGN LIVE 2016 – Anaheim, CA
Hexagon and Leica Geosystems are moving the venue for HxGN LIVE 2016 from Las Vegas to Anaheim, CA...