Category Archives: Mapping

Dynamic Map Service Available from USGS

Posted on August 16, 2018 by lidar

The USGS 3DEP program has added a powerful new dynamic map service capability to make it much simpler to investigate the range of products that can be generated on demand from the digital elevation data. The dynamic map service can … Continue reading →

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Quanergy is Facing a Number of Challenges

Posted on August 15, 2018 by lidar

In this extensive article by Bloomberg entitled, How a Billion – Dollar Autonomous Vehicle Start-up Lost its Way, the authors present a case that Quanergy is experiencing problems with its manufacturing, ability to retain key people and overall focus. This is … Continue reading →

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Sensoris is an Important Step in the Right Direction

Posted on August 3, 2018 by lidar

Imagine an industry-derived and supported standard for communicating between an autonomous vehicle and the cloud. Wouldn’t  that solve a lot of problems and save a lot of time (equals money)? That is what SENSORIS –SENSOR Interface Specification is all about. … Continue reading →

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Eco3d – Through the Eyes of the Consumer

Posted on July 31, 2018 by lidar

Eco3d (Editor’s Note. This is an excerpt from a detailed article which offers and inside look at the workflows, best practices and lessons learned by the rapidly growing team at Eco3d.) “That’s where Eco3d comes into play! In an effort … Continue reading →

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High Definition Maps – What are They?

Posted on July 29, 2018 by lidar

It seems like the autonomous vehicle industry agrees that they will require high definition maps in order for the vehicle sensor packages to compare the derived location with what is supposed to be ground truth. The only problem is, nobody … Continue reading →

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Transportation and GIS – The Debate Continues

Posted on July 26, 2018 by lidar

This was one of the key side discussions on the final day of the very successful TRB AFB80 summer meeting. The expected increase in autonomous and connected (the vehicle is connected to the infrastructure via dedicated radio signal) vehicle use, … Continue reading →

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TRB AFB80 Recap

Posted on July 25, 2018 by lidar

Tuesday at the AFB80 summer meeting was jam packed with presentations on small UAS, a visit to the Caltrans Transportation Lab and then detailed presentations on autonomous surface vehicles for hydrographic mapping, mobile lidar, ground penetrating lidar and subsurface utilities. … Continue reading →

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Neptec Design Group Acquired

Posted on July 19, 2018 by lidar

The big news coming from this year’s Farnborough Air Show in the photonics category was the acquisition of Neptec Design Group by MDA, a Canadian division of Maxar Technologies. Some might recall from a few years ago that we covered … Continue reading →

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Safeguarding Passenger Identities with Lidar

Posted on July 12, 2018 by lidar

Quanergy Systems is branching out from autonomous vehicles to safeguarding passenger identities with lidar. It’s a novel approach that when combined with human flow intelligence software from partner iinside can optimize passenger flows through airports and I would imagine train … Continue reading →

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Esri 2018 User Conference Opens with Exciting Plenary and Keynotes

Posted on July 10, 2018 by lidar

“The Science of Where” has been the Esri tagline for some time now. It says it all in terms of the Esri approach to GIS and mapping vs. let’s say, Google who still does a lot of GIS science, but … Continue reading →

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