If you’ve got good eyesight, you can probably see a person’s general figure from around 300 meters (1000 feet). If you’re ...

Above: An aircraft-mounted, two-axis scanner for a Doppler lidar to study complex wind patterns found around wildfires in complex terrain or near the coast. Top Image: Team members from left to right: ...

Above: A platform designed to stabilize a large Doppler lidar as it operates inside an airplane flying through a hurricane. You wouldn’t dream of flying through a hurricane, would you? Yet NOAA has ...

LiDAR and vSLAM are two of the most popular ... Overall, though, it's an excellent navigation technology. vSLAM is less common in modern robovacs, although a notable exception is that all of ...

But a technology closer to Earth can give us a much more detailed look. Aerial “light detection and ranging,” also known as lidar (rhymes with eye-dar), works by sending laser pulses from a ...

Doing away with a traditional radar, law enforcement is implementing scanning LIDAR technology. “Finds a violation, it takes a picture of the car and the license plate and the driver ...

BlueCity utilizes lidar technology. Lidar is short for light detection and ranging, according to The Associated Press. The BlueCity system shoots hundreds of light beams per second across ...

With this expansion, Ouster BlueCity will be the largest deployment of lidar detection technology for traffic and pedestrian safety in the United States. The project will combine digital lidar ...