The Pitfalls of Working with Lidar

The Pitfalls of Working with Lidar

The arrival of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or ‘drones’) has democratized the Lidar market forever. Everyday projects can be flown easier and faster, and sensors are...

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Creating a Digital Twin of the Earth

Creating a Digital Twin of the Earth

An unprecedented scientific effort to Lidar-scan the entire surface of the Earth before it’s too late... that’s how Christopher Fisher, the founder of the Earth Archive...

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Recent trends in four Lidar technologies

Recent trends in four Lidar technologies

Lidar technology is synonymous with 3D point clouds. To get the most out of 3D point cloud data, it is necessary to step back and continually consider the newest trends in Lidar te...

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Using Lidar North of the Arctic Circle

Using Lidar North of the Arctic Circle

This aerial acquisition mission in Greenland was made all the more challenging by the unique Arctic location. Precise geodata is considered vital to support almost all aspects of c...

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Downtown Dublin as a Lidar point cloud

Downtown Dublin as a Lidar point cloud

A dense annotated ground-truth Lidar dataset of the city of Dublin is the first of its kind regarding the accuracy, density and diversity of classes. The hierarchical labels offer...

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Monitoring 3D Urban Growth

Monitoring 3D Urban Growth

This innovative approach to measuring 3D urban growth integrates Lidar processing with machine learning. It takes account of the specific needs of urban planners, is less complicat...

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Sensor Fusion for Precision Agriculture

Sensor Fusion for Precision Agriculture

Precision agriculture has considerably benefited from the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, often combined with active ranging sensors like Lidar to gather information from undernea...

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3D City Modelling of Istanbul

3D City Modelling of Istanbul

The Turkish city of Istanbul is developing a 3D city model mainly aimed at urban planning. The data sources used so far include airborne Lidar, aerial images and 2D maps containing...

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Recent Developments in Airborne Lidar

Recent Developments in Airborne Lidar

The arrival of airborne Lidar, also referred to as airborne laser scanning (ALS), has revolutionized area-wide 3D data acquisition of topography, bathymetry, vegetation, buildings...

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3D City Modelling of Istanbul

3D City Modelling of Istanbul

The Turkish city of Istanbul is developing a 3D city model mainly aimed at urban planning. The data sources used so far include airborne Lidar, aerial images and 2D maps containing...

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