Some unique tech out there Another company working on solid state LiDAR is Velodyne. This company, which also produces 360-degree LiDAR systems, is working on a solid-state option to complement them.

Velodyne’s Lidar Sensors Power YellowScan’s Reliable Mobile Mapping The YellowScan Surveyor Ultra is a high density and long range mapping solution equipped with a Velodyne Ultra Puck™ sensor.

YellowScan has launched a new lidar system, the Surveyor Ultra. It integrates the Velodyne VLP-32C scanner and the Applanix APX-15 GNSS/inertial measurement unit (IMU). With high density (600,000 ...

Home Emerging Tech News A helicopter-mounted lidar system let archaeologists map an ancient Cambodian city By Luke Dormehl Published June 15, 2016 ...

Velodyne LiDAR Inc., the world leader in 3D vision systems for autonomous vehicles, today announced that it is partnering with YellowScan to integrate its VLP-16 Puck and VLP-16 Puck LITE LiDAR ...

That won't, if Baraja has its way, be the case forever. Indeed, the initial implementations of the Spectrum-Scan system would seem likely to be in driver-assistance rather than outright replacement.

With the help of a drone-mounted LiDAR scan, archaeologists were able to create a rough topographical map of two mountain-bound cities in Uzbekistan, named Tashbulak and Tugunbulak.

The system can operate in either a raster scan mode for surveillance missions or a side-to-side line scan mode for area mapping while the UAS is flying. The intuitive command and control, ...

The system displays a 3840 x 2160 resolution — the same as a 4K television — and 256 shades of grey. Or, actually, shades of red because that’s the color of the laser.

The centerpiece of the hardware is a lidar laser mounted on a turntable. A rotating mirror is built into the lidar module. It can scan an area made up of 16 vertical sections, or “slices,” ten times ...

LIDAR provides a picture of the ground hidden beneath, using a sophisticated computer program that produces an image of the land stripped clean of all its trees, bushes and greenery.

The companies plan to offer defense customers AEye’s 4Sight software-definable lidar system to help warfighters identify potential threats, they said in a statement. AEye also announced the opening of ...