[adam] is a caver, meaning that he likes to explore caves and map their inner structure. This is still commonly done using traditional tools, such as notebooks (the paper ones), tape measure, ...

The Think 3D Stormbee multicopter integrated with Trimble’s AP15 provides efficiency, accuracy and performance for lidar surveys from unmanned vehicles. Historically, lidar-based aerial surveys were ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Emma Sandler is a journalist covering beauty, fashion and wellness. When Andrew Godwin bought his first 3D printer in January 2016 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On April 18 th, 2018, NavVis released their M6, a fully-integrated, cart-based system designed for large-scale indoor mapping. The M6 utilizes VLP-16 sensors by ...

Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...

With Apple's aggressive expansion into geospatial data has come a new focus on research into foundational sensors and systems related to the field, including a newly granted patent that covers an ...

Reconstructing a car crash is painstaking work for police officers. It can take hours to compile data, such as the distance between a skid mark and the spot where a wrecked car stopped. The hours it ...

National governments release all kinds of official data online, but most people don’t make use of it. San Francisco-based programmer Andrew Godwin is not most people. He recently found a way to use ...

The New Zealand Government has awarded the first of a series of contracts to gather 3D geographic data of more than half the country using light detection and ranging (LIDAR) to create consistent ...