Helicopter-mounted laser scanners are going where emergency personnel cannot following natural disasters, helping to spot unstable slopes, sinkholes, structural problems and flood-prone zones before ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Frequent sea surges and alarming levels of erosion continue to batter Kerala’s 590-km shoreline, displacing thousands of coastal residents year after year. Studies show that ...

Kochi: High court has sought instructions from the state govt and Chellanam panchayat regarding temporary measures to protect residents of the Chellanam coastal area from sea erosion during this ...

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2023). [2] LiDAR point cloud simplification algorithm with fuzzy encoding-decoding mechanism. Applied Soft Computing (2024).

Point clouds are what 3D scanners create when an object is scanned, and to become useful, those point clouds are usually post-processed into 3D models (specifically, meshes) like an .obj or .stl file.

Since 2020, the Corps has also placed 14 groins —stone structures that help limit coastal erosion—on the beach, and are working on reinforcing a stretch of sand dunes on the water-facing side.

In short: Beaches remain stripped of sand three months on from Cyclone Alfred and $30 million of sand pumping. The Gold Coast City Council says it could take up to three years to recover from the ...

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New play equipment has been installed at Barton’s Point Coastal Park. Picture: Swale council© Kent Online The £17,000 upgrade was funded by the UK government and developer contributions..

The dramatic beach erosion left in the wake of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred has laid bare a truth that many coastal scientists have warned about for years. Read why Mark Ellis 3 min read ...

No savvy politician can get away with treating gaming as if it were a passing fad, says the Financial Times' Stephen Bush.