Pioneers in Capturing Public Space

Pioneers in Capturing Public Space

CycloMedia is a renowned mapping company specialised in large-scale and systematic visualisations of environments. Its headquarters are situated in The Netherlands, a country that...

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The Evolution of Lidar

The Evolution of Lidar

Ron Roth of Leica Geosystems and Marcos Sirota of Sigma Space Corp explain how this technology will bring benefits through faster pulse rates and denser point clouds. Current airbo...

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Lidar Data Capture: Where Are We Now?

Lidar Data Capture: Where Are We Now?

Lidar provides an excellent way for mapping applications such as distribution utility services, as-built surveys of mines and roads, vegetation risk management and forestry service...

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Paving the Way for Self-driving Cars

Paving the Way for Self-driving Cars

Since Karl Benz was granted a patent for his first internal combustion engine in 1879, the automotive industry has changed substantially. Or has it? The main principle remains the...

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The Evolution of Lidar

The Evolution of Lidar

Current airborne Lidar systems, such as the Leica ALS series, capture one million points per second. Increasing the pulse repetition rate is the best way to achieve dense point clo...

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Pushing Lidar to the Limits

Pushing Lidar to the Limits

Airborne bathymetric Lidar is an ideal tool to study underwater features in the usually rather clear waters along the coast of Australia. Due to the remoteness of many of the conti...

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The Fierce Rise of Airborne Lidar

The Fierce Rise of Airborne Lidar

Today, automatic matching of overlapping aerial imagery and airborne Lidar are the main geodata technologies for capturing dense point clouds of the Earth’s surface. The samp...

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Technology in Focus: Bathymetric Lidar

Technology in Focus: Bathymetric Lidar

With sea-level rise and increases in the severity of extreme natural events, there has been a renewed push to further our understanding of the coastal zone. Fundamental to understa...

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Lidar Survey over Ancient Maya City

Lidar Survey over Ancient Maya City

The ancient Maya site of Copan, Honduras, was captured during an airborne Lidar survey in May 2013. The resulting products are accessible through 2D and 3D WebGIS tools and enable...

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Lidar-driven Innovation

Lidar-driven Innovation

The first laser was built in 1960 by Maiman, two years after Miller and LaFlamme introduced the digital terrain model (DTM) in the context of civil engineering purposes in 1958. Pr...

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Lidar Scanning by Helicopter in the USA

Lidar Scanning by Helicopter in the USA

In recent years, use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) has soared as a means for capturing geodata by images and Lidar. However, this does not mean that proven platforms, such as h...

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Lidar Quality Assurance

Lidar Quality Assurance

Basic tools for processing Lidar point clouds, which can be extended depending on needs, provide a flexible platform for service providers and users alike. Here, the authors demons...

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Bringing Colour to Point Clouds

Bringing Colour to Point Clouds

Until now, most commercially available airborne Lidar systems have operated on one single wavelength, reflecting energy from a pulse which is then used for classification or visual...

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Interpolation of Lidar Point Clouds

Interpolation of Lidar Point Clouds

For representing terrain heights INSPIRE, which is aimed at creating an EU spatial data infrastructure, has developed specifications for digital terrain models (DTMs). DTMs are pre...

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'Great Stories Start Here'

'Great Stories Start Here'

This year’s HxGN Live, Hexagon Metrology’s annual user conference, was once again held in Las Vegas, USA, from 2-6 June. Its maxim: ‘Great Stories Start Here’. From a geomatics poi...

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Lidar Flight Planning

Lidar Flight Planning

Airborne Lidar has become a regular technology for acquiring accurate, consistent and dense point clouds. However, the constraints on specifications, available sensors and aerial p...

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The Venerable Lady Strikes Back

The Venerable Lady Strikes Back

The longest-standing ‘remote sensing’ technology – photogrammetry – has already been around for 150 years. Indeed, she is a venerable lady in the realm of g...

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Mobile Lidar for Urban Streetscapes

Mobile Lidar for Urban Streetscapes

Surveying And Mapping, Inc. (SAM, Inc.) performed a mobile Lidar survey of the historic Sixth Street district in Austin, Texas, USA, for an urban planning project being conducting...

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Formula 1 and Geomatics

Formula 1 and Geomatics

During the month of May, the narrow, winding, bumpy streets of the city centre of Monte Carlo in the Principality of Monaco turn into a 3.34-kilometre racing circuit for the annu...

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Lidar: Quality Assurance and Control

Lidar: Quality Assurance and Control

Lidar systems have been widely adopted for the acquisition of dense and accurate topographic data over extensive areas. Collected topographic data can satisfy the needs of several...

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