MayanRoots was created by an interdisciplinary team using anthropological methods and 3-D mapping data to serve a small ...

LANCASTER – The July Map of the Month, an aerial view of Mt. Pleasant, uses LiDAR imaging. LiDAR is an acronym for "light detection and ranging" or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging.” LiDAR ...

For a hands-free driving system to keep a vehicle safely in its lane, the software first needs to know where that lane is and some information about it. We've explained how these systems rely on ...

From mountain peaks to city skylines, Oregon’s dramatic landscapes are revealed with the state’s new interactive lidar map. Lidar technology offers precise, high-resolution images of the surface of ...

Ford’s current autonomous research vehicles already have LiDAR built into them for 3D mapping, but those sensors are big, spinning spikes on the roof of the car. At CES in Las Vegas last week, Ford ...

The researcher took advantage of maps available freely online. Takeshi Inomata identified this ancient Maya site, dubbed La Carmelita, using LiDAR maps, seen here in both low and high resolution.

As lidar company Luminar pushed ahead to meet its goals for 2022 — milestones that included locking in new commercial contracts with unnamed automakers and shipping production-ready sensors to SAIC — ...

The greatest advantage self-driving cars hold over outdated humans is the ability to tune out distractions. No buzzing phone, yelling kids, or lovely daydream will divert attention from their primary ...

Thanks to modern laser technology, Southeast Asia’s Khmer Empire is rising from forest floors for the first time in centuries. A helicopter carrying light detection and ranging equipment, lidar for ...

Why abandon well-worn mapping methods in current use? It has to be for one or more forms of gain: time, money or staffpower. UAV-borne lidar can save a lot of field time, eliminate the need for site ...

The technology known as LiDAR – Light Detection and Ranging, a laser-driven means of making precise measurements over large areas – has been helping scientists understand geology and natural history ...