Category Archives: Lidar

Specifying 3D Accuracy When Using a SLAM Scanner

Posted on June 26, 2019 by lidar

Monday’s post, which caused an encouraging jump in traffic, came in part from the preparations that are underway for a webinar on specifying 3D accuracy for laser scanners. This educational webinar, co-sponsored by the USIBD and Paracosm will discuss the … Continue reading →

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TRB AFB80 Summer Meeting is Just One Month Away

Posted on June 25, 2019 by lidar

TRB AFB80 is the standing committee focused on Geospatial Data Acquisition Technologies in Design and Construction relating to highway transportation. We will be meeting in Daytona, FL July 21 – 24, 2019 at the Daytona Hotel. The Transportation Research Board … Continue reading →

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Surveying Control – Its Misuse and Effects on Accuracy

Posted on June 24, 2019 by lidar

One of the most important concepts in surveying is the principle that surveying control should be significantly more accurate than the actual survey. Some say it should be twice as accurate, some say an order of magnitude. In many cases … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D Modeling, airborne LiDAR, Geomatics, Laser Scanning, Lidar, Mapping, Metrology, Mobile LiDAR, Standards, Surveying, Surveying Engineering, The Industry, UAS, UAVs | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Waymo CTO is Working on The Difficult Edge Cases

Posted on June 23, 2019 by lidar

Dmitri Dolgov, Waymo CTO is fighting the elements in his bid to bring autonomous cars to the world. The chief technology officer of Waymo, the Alphabet-owned firm born out of Google’s semi-secret X development lab, is at a point where … Continue reading →

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Comparison of Structure From Motion with UAV Lidar

Posted on June 21, 2019 by lidar

In this paper a side-by-side comparison of structure from motion photogrammetry is performed with lidar using the same UAV platform. Thanks to Bill Gutelius at Qntfi for the lead. The capabilities and utility of UAV LiDAR and surface from motion … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D Modeling, Agriculture, airborne LiDAR, Data, Environmental, Lidar, Mapping, Photogrammetry, point clouds, remote sensing, Research, Sensors, Structure from motion, UAS, UAVs | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Cleaning of 3D Laser Scans with Machine Learning

Posted on June 20, 2019 by lidar

In this article, we introduce a semi-automated cleaning of 3D laser scans approach that incrementally trains a random forest (RF) classifier on an initial keep/discard point labeling generated by the user when cleaning the first scan(s). The classifier is then … Continue reading →

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Cruise is Sharing Data Visualization Platform

Posted on June 19, 2019 by lidar

Autonomous vehicle start-up Cruise is sharing a software platform with roboticists that was initially created to give its own engineers a better understanding of the petabytes of data generated every month from its fleet of autonomous vehicles. From an article … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D Modeling, AI, artifical perception, artificial intelligence, Autonomous vehicles, Business Development, computer vision, Consumer, Data, driverless vehicles, Laser Scanning, Lidar, machine learning, Research, Robots, Sensors, Software, Visualization | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Second Annual World Safety Summit – Time to Register

Posted on June 18, 2019 by lidar

Velodyne Lidar is hosting the second annual World Safety Summit on Autonomous Technology at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, October 2, 2019. The event is free, but we encourage you to RSVP by clicking here. In the spirit of … Continue reading →

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Sense Photonics Mounts Flash Lidar on Curved Surface

Posted on June 17, 2019 by lidar

The latest stealth autonomous vehicle start-up to come out of hiding is Sense Photonics offering “flexible” flash lidar. The main advantages that this provides is the ability to locate the sensor on a curved surface and the ability to achieve … Continue reading →

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Entertainment Industry Realizes Lidar Provides Control

Posted on June 14, 2019 by lidar

In an impressive pair of presentations from the entertainment industry yesterday both companies explained that lower cost lidar scanners are a game changer. It turns out that lidar provides such a high level of accuracy that they can use it … Continue reading →

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