Tropical rainforests are crucial yet vulnerable ecosystems that store vast amounts of carbon and shelter remarkable biodiversity. Understanding how their structure responds to clim...
The exploration and classification of the seabed have always been crucial for various scientific, environmental and commercial purposes. Traditional methods of seabed classificatio...
A state-of-the-art global coastal digital terrain model (DTM) with a resolution of 1 arcsecond (~30m) has been created by researchers at Deltares and Delft University of Technology...
Lidar technology has undergone significant advancements in the past ten years, revolutionizing applications in various fields such as surveying, forestry, urban planning and enviro...
Due to the specifics of the Baltic Sea, performing accurate measurements in the coastal zone is not an easy task. For the past decade, topographic laser scanners have been used for...
In this Q&A, we asked Trimble’s Jeff Turgeon to share his insights into the current state of the sector and his expectations for the future. Looking at terrestrial laser...
In this article, we examine the evolving landscape of bathymetry with insights from Anders Ekelund, vice president of airborne bathymetric Lidar at Hexagon Geosystems. Beyond mappi...
When considering Lidar technology for forest inventory, it is essential to evaluate the trade-offs of each platform. This article provides some pointers. There is a critical n...
The Dutch startup Aerial Precision recently demonstrated its first two sensors with integrated artificial intelligence software. Over the past few years, the company’s innova...
Perhaps surprisingly, video game development is becoming an increasingly popular use case for navigation and Lidar data. However, it is often overlooked amidst the almost endless p...
While it is possible to capture ancient Maya sites hidden beneath jungle canopy in remote locations using airborne Lidar, identifying them is still a time-consuming process. Typica...
UAV-borne topobathymetric laser scanning is emerging as a promising tool for the accurate high-resolution capturing and modelling of socio-economically and ecologically important s...
Integrated airborne sensing combining imagery and Lidar data presented an effective solution in this complex project to model two iconic Croatian cities with challenging relief and...
Terrestrial laser scanning is increasingly being fused with air/spaceborne Lidar to characterize vegetation structure across a range of forest ecosystems. This article explores the...
Lidar change detection (LCD) is one of the most capable techniques for mapping changing terrain through time. It can be applied in billion-dollar decisions to design, build and ope...
'GIM International' spoke to Blickfeld, a developer of Lidar sensors and software, to hear about other potentially relevant applications in smart cities, besides for autonomou...
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...
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...
Airborne Lidar and 3D modelling technologies were used at the historic site of Fort Anne in Nova Scotia, Canada, not only as an aesthetic recreation of history, but also to help sc...
The accuracy of coastline data in Indonesia could be much improved by making use of Lidar bathymetry technology. In this article, the authors describe how Lidar bathymetry survey t...
In the past, the effort of hardware integration and the necessary combination of different software tools was a major hurdle to gain a foothold in the field of laser scanning. This...
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...
A recent study created crop type maps using Lidar, Sentinel-2 and aerial data along with several machine learning classification algorithms for differentiating four crop types in a...
Recent technological developments have made aerial surveying more exciting than ever. For imagery, ground resolutions of 2cm can now be reached, whereas for Lidar, pulse frequencie...
What will be the future of Lidar? To quote Abraham Lincoln: “The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it”. So what is currently being created in the geo...
A few obstacles are making the usage of Lidar data in archaeology look exotic and perhaps even threatening, according to archaeologist Jošt Hobič from Slovenia, even though...
Various multibeam Lidar sensors are suited for mobile mapping. Read this article to learn more about their features and productivity. In mobile mapping, geospatial data is acquired...
A UAV project in Germany has integrated photogrammetric bundle block adjustment with direct georeferencing of Lidar point clouds to considerably improve the respective accuracy. Re...
Aerial surveys conducted in the UK and Ireland demonstrate the potential of a combination of nadir camera, oblique cameras and a Lidar unit in one to meet the need for accurate, de...
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...
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...
The airborne market for area-wide 3D data acquisition is experiencing a noticeable trend towards a hybrid mapping concept. In the near future, most airborne data collection will in...
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...
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...
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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