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At long last, Virginia has its legislative maps for the next decade.It’s been a long time coming — and I’m not even talking about the decade of advocacy from nonpartisan groups like the ...
A Lidar map of New Bern, N.C. shows potential flooding from a 16-foot storm surge. The image is from a Power Point delivered last year by the director of the North Carolina office of Geospatial ...
The survey was conducted using Teledyne Optech CZMIL SuperNova lidar system, which allowed Dewberry to successfully survey a 55-mile (88.5km) stretch of the Potomac River, spanning from Hancock, ...
LiDAR mapping has helped to find four lost Roman roads so far, and there are hopes it will enable archaeologists to find many more - this 'light detection and ranging' laser mapping technology can ...
The maps grabbed the attention of archaeologists and history buffs —among them, David Ratledge, a 70-year-old retired road engineer who has spent nearly five decades searching for ancient Roman ...
Elon Musk had some burning remarks on the LiDAR technology during Tesla's Autonomy Day event in April 2019. Here are some reasons why LiDAR won't make it on Tesla's autonomous vehicles.
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 ...
With a fresh pile of cash, startup Civil Maps is racing Google, Here, and others to teach self-driving cars to see and understand their world. Skip to main content Open Navigation Menu ...
Maps created by an aerial scanning technique called lidar (lie-dar) reveal with stunning clarity a series of giant scars and piles of debris left by past landslides up and down the valley ...
Skagit County has released an online story map highlighting some of the local geology uncovered using Lidar technology. Screenshot of ... with the help of a computer program produce lidar maps.
The U.K.'s lidar maps were used primarily for environmental purposes, such as for planning flood defenses or tracking eroding coastlines. But last summer, the agency dumped all 11TB of its data ...