The capabilities of lidar system to describe the 3D structure of forests were demonstrated almost 20 years ago, and as its use in forestry applications grew its value in ecology became increasingly ...

A PhD student discovers a public dataset on 'page 16 of a Google search' that helps uncover a major urban center once home to 50,000 people in 800 AD.

Ground-based LiDAR is used to scan objects such as buildings and sits on a tripod. The general structure of airborne LiDAR systems consist of four main parts, totally integrated to produce ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Saint Louis University (SLU) is ...

Included in the parameters recorded this way are surface topography, canopy height metrics, canopy cover metrics and vertical structure metrics. Originally, the LiDAR scanner was supposed to be ...

The drone-lidar scans provided remarkably detailed ... "This site had an elaborate urban structure with specific material culture that greatly varied from the lowland sedentary culture," Maksudov ...

Once considered an essential part of the auto industry's high-tech future, lidar sensors are now often seen as optional components with uncertain prospects. The sensors, which use lasers to depict ...