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 frequencies of 4GHz and point ...

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 geospatial market? This article...

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 Lidar is almost a must wh...

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 by one or more came...

A UAV project in Germany has integrated photogrammetric bundle block adjustment with direct georeferencing of Lidar point clouds to considerably improve the respective accuracy. Recent unmanned aerial...

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, detailed and up-to-dat...

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 community activities ...

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 excellent potential ...

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 increasingly be perfor...

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 complicated to run and addres...