LiDAR, short for "light detection and ranging," is a remote sensing technology. Analogous to radar, a LiDAR array fires light at a target, often via laser.

A small plane carrying light detection and ranging equipment, or lidar, emitted laser pulses that gathered data on the ground’s shape across 2,144 square kilometers of northern Guatemala.

What do you call a 1,000-kilometer-long fault line that has slept for 40 million years, suddenly and quietly starting to wake ...

A landmark study is reporting the discovery of nearly 500 ancient monuments in Mexico using airborne laser mapping. The newly discovered sites are thought to date back at least 2,500 years, in ...

In four days of LiDAR over-flights in 2009, the Chases gathered more information than in the previous 25 years of investigations at that site, mapping 80 square miles of the city and its surroundings.

From an airplane or in some cases a drone, a LiDAR sensor tracks the amount of time each laser pulse takes to return and uses that information to create a three-dimensional map of the environment ...

Collecting the data To collect the data, the RRWMB contracted with the Colorado-based Sanborn Mapping Co., in 2021 to acquire LiDAR information over 20,034 square miles of northwest Minnesota.

In terms of mapping technology, the Botvac D10 uses Neato's LaserSmart SLAM Technology with LiDAR for creating those laser-guided snapshots of your home.

If LiDAR allows "only" a 3D-surface-scan, then I'm surprised of the low 2.5 cm resolution: Distance measurements with laser are far more precise.

To collect the data, the RRWMB contracted with the Colorado-based Sanborn Mapping Co., in 2021 to acquire LiDAR information over 20,034 square miles of northwest Minnesota.