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Self-Driving Cars

Velodyne eyes improved roadway safety with sub-$500 LiDAR sensor

Ishveena Singh - November 13, 2020 0

In 2007, Velodyne used to charge almost $80,000 for each LiDAR unit it developed to advance safety in self-driving vehicles. Today, the company is...

Geo NEWS

What’s a LiDAR sensor doing on an iPhone anyway?

Ishveena Singh - October 14, 2020 0

For our regular readers and the geospatial community in general, Light Detection and Ranging or LiDAR is part of common parlance. For everyone else,...

Geo NEWS

Self-driving cars that run on simple maps and video camera feeds?

Ishveena Singh - December 23, 2019 0

There are more than 60 companies in the United States alone that are developing technologies for self-driving cars. While some are rethinking maps at...

Drones

Drones and Lidar – A Match Made in Cartometric Modeling Heaven

Ryan LaDue - August 16, 2019 1

After consecutive hurricanes carved their way through the Gulf of Mexico in August and September of 2017, of paramount importance was restoring the crippled...

Geo NEWS

A lot more Apple Maps cars to be seen on Canada roads

Shimonti Paul - May 28, 2019 1

Apple has announced that it will be driving across Canada throughout the summer to capture road details, signage and landmarks. It is carrying out...

Opinions / TL;DR

How the tragic fire at Notre Dame will accelerate the adoption of laser scanning of historic architecture

Aleks Buczkowski - April 25, 2019 0

On April 15th, 2019 the tragic fire at Notre Dame in Paris caused devastating damage to the famous 856-year-old cathedral. It's a terrible loss...

Geo NEWS

NASA’s new 3D map of forests to fill carbon knowledge gap

Ishveena Singh - February 8, 2019 0

NASA is all set to create the first three-dimensional map of the world’s forests with its newly-launched Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) laser instrument....

Geo NEWS

Shocking LiDAR discovery astounds Maya civilization experts

Ishveena Singh - February 7, 2018 0

Mind=blown. That’s the popular sentiment in archaeological circles right now. Maya experts have just learnt that the ancient civilization was home to “millions” more...

Drones

Drone LiDAR or Photogrammetry? Everything you need to know.

Aleks Buczkowski - January 6, 2018 11

With the recent development in the drone surveying space, there has been a lot of myths and misconceptions around UAV LiDAR and photogrammetry. In...

Geo NEWS

This startup has made real-time 3D mapping possible with only a handheld device

Ishveena Singh - July 6, 2017 1

Creating a 3D model of a space for architecture, engineering and construction is a time-consuming process, to say the least. You scan the surroundings,...

Geo NEWS

Is 3D street view coming to Apple Maps?

Ishveena Singh - July 1, 2017 4

It is no secret that Apple has been driving vehicles around the world to collect data which it says will be used to improve...

Big Data

Laser Mapping Indian Infrastructure

Rohini Swaminathan - February 5, 2014 3

Laser Mapping - a very new concept just few years ago. Today it has found its usefulness from transportation to pipeline mapping to construction....

Remote Sensing

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