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.

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

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 ...

“The new lidar data show that interconnected Maya cities go back to at least 300 B.C.,” Arlen Chase says. Further lidar-guided surveys and excavations are planned, Estrada-Belli says.

Core Business: Laser terrain mapping Employees in 2006: 25 Employees in 2007: 37 Goal: To become the dominant provider of laser terrain mapping technology in the U.S. Driving Force: Need of public ...

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.

Chris Wright, surveyor with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, uses the LiDAR, Light Detection and Ranging system, housed on an ATV, to measure Folly Beach's elevation in 2015. The laser-mapping ...

For the past decade, he’s been a trailblazer in the archaeological application of LiDAR, airborne light detection and ranging equipment that can find structures obscured by dense tree canopies ...

By CNN Newssource July 26, 2023 8:47 AM Published July 26, 2023 9:16 AM Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin By Katie Hunt, CNN ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Three four-hour flights high above the jungles of Campeche on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula exposed a hidden gem on the ground below: a lost city that was likely ...