Emergency evacuations during natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis increasingly rely on advanced technology to ...

The use of LiDAR sensors for mapping is growing, as recent technological advances even allow them now to be mounted on drones. LiDAR point clouds are often collected in conjunction with imagery, which ...

GeoCue Group Inc. unveiled its new True View™ line of drone sensors at an invitation only industry event on June 25 th in Nashville, Tennessee. True View sensors offer surveyors an innovative lidar + ...

Archaeology may not be the most likely place to find the latest in technology — AI and robots are of dubious utility in the painstaking fieldwork involved — but lidar has proven transformative. The ...

Electric utilities have installed Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) units on helicopters, aerial drones or on the ground. While similar to radar, which uses radio waves to detect objects and their ...

LiDAR, archaeologists joke that it’s ‘the dream’ when approaching large-scale field surveys, especially in remote or difficult to traverse areas. It seems like new 'lost' cities are coming to light ...

NV5 Geospatial, powered by geospatial data firm Quantum Spatial, has expanded its Canadian operations in 2020, having been selected to provide lidar, aerial imagery and geospatial analytics for ...

LiDAR is having a moment right now helping self-driving cars and robots not hit things, but don't forget about what else it can do. In a study called The Bare Earth, scientists from the Washington ...

Closer to home, LiDAR’s role on Rattlesnake Ridge isn’t unusual. The technology has yielded striking geographic portraits from throughout Washington — rivers that meander out of their channels, land ...

Lidar imaging has been around for almost as long as the technology it’s based on, the laser. But unlike its more famous cousin, radar, it was mostly used for research purposes. The reason scientists ...