Category Archives: Lidar

FAA Part 107 Commercial Drone License – A Primer

Posted on April 7, 2020 by lidar

Drone ownership, which includes hobbyists and professional drone operators, has increased over the last few years. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the number of registered drones surpassed one million in 2018. Here’s a guide to getting your FAA … Continue reading →

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Fragmented Forest Canopy Effects Documented with Lidar

Posted on April 4, 2020 by lidar

With the help of airborne lasers, researchers have discovered what a fragmented forest canopy means in the long-term for tropical trees. From an article in Inverse. Trees at the edges of forests store 22 PERCENT LESS CARBON than trees inside … Continue reading →

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Apple Will Use Lidar to Create Competitive Advantage

Posted on April 2, 2020 by lidar

Apple will use LiDAR this year as a compelling story for iPad Pro, and we expect, iPhone 12 later this year. LiDAR works similarly to the front-facing TrueDepth sensor, but rather than being optimized for the face, it allows users … Continue reading →

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Flight Evolved Uses Lidar to Inspect Transmission Lines

Posted on April 1, 2020 by lidar

Flight Evolved says according to an estimate in 2010, there are approximately 200,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines in the United States. That is a lot of transmission structures! However, the same estimate claims that there are approximately 5.5 million … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus – If You Have Good News, Please Share It

Posted on March 30, 2020 by lidar

As some of you may have noticed I have chosen to avoid the issue of the coronavirus crisis that is facing our 3D industry and the world. My reasoning is that I am sure you are receiving plenty of information … Continue reading →

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Trees Have a Heartbeat – Lidar Proves It

Posted on March 29, 2020 by lidar

Scientist Diana Beresford Kroeger proved that the biochemistry of humans and that of plants and trees are the same – ie the hormones (including serotonin) that regulate human and plant life are identical. What this means practically is that trees … Continue reading →

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Continuous Time SLAM – How does it work?

Posted on March 28, 2020 by lidar

GeoSLAM is a world leader in the development and use of Simultaneous Location and Mapping technology, or SLAM. They have developed an informative infographic that explains why SLAM is needed and how it can be used to benefit customers when … Continue reading →

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LevelS3D Delivered Beyond Spec Using Mobile Lidar

Posted on March 26, 2020 by lidar

LevelS3D delivered results that exceeded the project requirements on a recent project where they mapped a Paris metro station using the NavVis M6. LevelS3D is a French company founded in 2012 which develops 3D scanning applications for the next-gen tablets … Continue reading →

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Canyons of the Ancients National Monument 3D Mapped

Posted on March 25, 2020 by lidar

Crow Canyon Archaeology Center and the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument looked to map Sand Canyon an ancestral Pueblo site. They knew traditional mapping would not suffice. Using UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) LiDAR technology, they received impressive results. They … Continue reading →

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RIEGL Virtual Lidar Conference is Today

Posted on March 24, 2020 by lidar

To replace the loss of this week’s ILMF conference RIEGL has taken this opportunity to offer a free, day long virtual lidar conference. When you are given lemons make lemonade. I hope everyone will take this opportunity to support this … Continue reading →

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