Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)—first developed by the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1961—is a technology you may not think about often, but many scientists and engineers find impossible to ...

The technology, known as Topobathy lidar, uses light-based sensors to ... underwater targets” that could potentially be additional aircraft debris; according to the NTSB’s statement, divers ...

Above: An aircraft-mounted, two-axis scanner for a Doppler lidar to study complex wind patterns found around wildfires in complex terrain or near the coast. Top Image: Team members from left to right: ...

Also, the near-range signals can saturate when the aircraft is flying through dense clouds. In this situation, the clouds cannot be fully penetrated by the lidar, and the signals can be dramatically ...

Thus, a Pixracer autopilot was installed, and combined with a small LIDAR device to accurately measure altitude above the ground. With some custom tweaks to the Ardupilot firmware, the craft was ...

The Vaisala Windcube Scan 200s is a pulsed double lidar (Light Detection And Ranging) that enables the determination of the radial wind speed in a targeted volume. This three-dimensional laser ...