It may seem trivial, but LiDAR has numerous applications beyond simply scanning your cat. For example, you can mount it on an RC car and have it scan its surroundings to create a 3D map of its ...

A LiDAR scan of Guiengola, showing the civic and ceremonial center (left), separated by a defensive wall from the city's commoner areas (right).

And today, in combination with modern technology like LiDAR, it’s allowing researchers to craft a 3D model of the famous shipwreck to study long after the wreckage itself has deteriorated.

In the cross section image above (Figure 1), the yellow points are from a photogrammetry dataset while the points in brown are from a LiDAR scan over the same area. As can be clearly seen, the ...

LIDAR technology is an innovation in archeology and ecology that has uncovered lost civilizations. But archeologist Chris Fisher realized it could help track and study the effects of climate change.

From 325 metres away, your eyes can probably distinguish a person’s head from their body – and not much else. But a new laser-based device can create a three-dimensional model of their face.

So the LiDAR does that for us, and it’s incredibly accurate—more than 90 percent accurate. Before using LiDAR to map it, we didn’t know where it was. You had to stumble upon it, the old ...

Bottom: A LiDAR scan of the same trestle bridge. (Sgt. 1st Class Andrew French and CW4 Michael Baber) The current state of international affairs and conflicts in multiple parts of the world requires a ...