Category Archives: Lidar

STEM Program Learns About the Use of 3D Laser Scanning

Posted on October 20, 2019 by lidar

Wednesday afternoon University of Arkansas Fort Smith Students in the STEM Living Learning Community convened at the Fort Smith Regional Airport to experience 3-D Laser scanning, also known as light detection and ranging technology (LiDAR,) in action. The UAFS Science, … Continue reading →

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Lake Michigan Shoreline Rapidly Changing

Posted on October 19, 2019 by lidar

The Purdue research team uses this drone fitted with a LiDAR device to measure coastal erosion at southern Lake Michigan. From an article in Purdue Engineering. Around Lake Michigan, coastal erosion is progressing so rapidly that beachfront properties soon could … Continue reading →

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RIEGL North America Training Symposium Recap

Posted on October 18, 2019 by lidar

Billed as a training symposium, the RIEGL North America event this week was all of that and much more. These relatively small, customer-focused events are the best for gaining knowledge, making connections with the vendor and networking with your peers. … Continue reading →

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Monitoring the Helheim Glacier with Lidar

Posted on October 16, 2019 by lidar

One of the outstanding presentations at the RIEGL Training Symposium yesterday came from David Finnegan at the the U.S. ACE CRREL lab in Hanover, NH. He has developed an impressive lidar data collection system for monitoring the massive Helheim Glacier … Continue reading →

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North America Training Symposium Kicks Off Today

Posted on October 15, 2019 by lidar

I am at the Reunion Resort in Orlando, FL attending RIEGL’s North America Training Symposium for the next few days. This is a hands on learning event that includes hardware and software classes as well as presentations from vendors including … Continue reading →

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ASTRALite Collects Bathymetric & Topographic Data

Posted on October 14, 2019 by lidar

ASTRALite recently collected several data sets from the world’s first scanning topo-bathy UAV LiDAR system that can seamlessly map both above and below the surface of water. ASTRALite appears to be making progress in the development of their combined topo-bathy … Continue reading →

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Rapid Archaeology Supported by Airborne Lidar

Posted on October 13, 2019 by lidar

Archaeologists in Scotland, using what some are referring to as rapid archaeology have concluded a cutting-edge project which has revealed around 1,000 previously unknown sites on the Isle of Arran. From an article in Ancient Origins by Ashely Cowie. There … Continue reading →

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Autonomous Mobility Solutions – A Glimpse Into the Future

Posted on October 12, 2019 by lidar

Beep is one of the first autonomous mobility systems operating in a real traffic environment on a small route in Orlando, FL. It is currently running at 15 mph which is too slow and is causing a less than a … Continue reading →

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Tesla Gets a Lidar Upgrade – What Would Elon Think?

Posted on October 11, 2019 by lidar

In a strange twist of fate a Tesla was seen at last week’s World Safety Summit retrofitted with a Velodyne lidar sensor. OMG From an article in Forbes by Lance Eliot. There is a LIDAR sensor in a Tesla. There … Continue reading →

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Waymo is 3D Mapping Los Angeles to Offer Robotaxis

Posted on October 10, 2019 by lidar

Traffic-clogged Los Angeles hasn’t been a factor in the race to perfect self-driving car tech, with R & D and testing concentrated in Silicon Valley, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and even Las Vegas. But that’s finally changing as autonomous minivans from Alphabet … Continue reading →

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