There have been many talks about lidar since its appearance in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for smart mobility in 2020. This year, the automotive lidar market managed to reach a record 17% CAGR growth. This ...

Jon Barad is vice president of business development at Velodyne Lidar, where he leads efforts to engage and develop strong partnerships with companies in emerging autonomous markets, including ...

The Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC) at the University of Wyoming has launched the Wyoming LiDAR (light detection and ranging) Data Portal, providing unprecedented public access ...

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 ...

New research shows Apple is not only working to add LiDAR to "Apple Car" and its augmented reality efforts, but also how to make devices utilize the image data faster. It has felt as if LiDAR is the ...

Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...

Since commercial drone LIDAR burst onto the scene, there’s been a place for different levels of performance. Some LIDAR projects will always require the most advanced sensors, while entry-level drone ...

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 ...

The Utility Vegetation Management (UVM) industry is evolving at a rapid pace as emerging technologies such as LiDAR, workflow systems and satellite imagery are revolutionizing the tasks that are ...

Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic eruptions, and mudslides. The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in ...

The ground stations of the European research infrastructure ACTRIS play an important role in calibrating the data from the EarthCARE satellite: they have been established and expanded in recent years ...