Lidar

February 9th 2012

The Most Precise Image of a Post-Earthquake Landscape Ever Created

A new measurement tool that uses light detection and ranging (or LiDAR) can show how earthquakes have changed the landscape down to a few inches—and that can help us prepare for difficult-to-predict earthquakes. In the image above, blue means the earth has descended, and red shows upward movement compared to a 2006 survey. LiDAR makes…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

October 14th 2010

What Is This?

Believe it or not, this is the Moon. Zoom out for the complete image and the explanation. Aaron Meyers took NASA’s topographical LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) map of the Moon and, instead of assigning a pixel to each data point, he assigned a bubbly frame from the animated GIF on the left, created by…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

January 8th 2010

Suck It, Street View, Navteq Maps the World in 3D… With Lasers

Google’s Street View team famously photographs all kinds of weird stuff as they drive the world, but Navteq, who basically invented this stuff, just built a mount with seven cameras and 64 lasers to see everything better, in 3D. Mounted atop a VW Jetta wagon is this crazy apparatus with a 12-megapixel panoramic camera on…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

November 6th 2008

Wind Turbine Laser System Detects Gusts Before They Arrive

A startup company named ‘Catch the Wind’ has developed a product that could increase the efficiency of wind turbines by up to ten percent. Currently, wind turbines lose one percent of their operating efficiency for every degree that the blades are out of alignment with the oncoming wind. The ‘Vindicator’ fiber-optic laser system can sense…

Tech News Sean Fallon

April 30th 2008

Robotic Wheelchair Uses Lasers to Dock Like a Spaceship

A robotic wheelchair that loads itself into its owner’s car using the same principles as a spaceship does when docking, has been developed by a team from Pennsylvania. An on-board computer uses LIDAR, or light detecting and ranging, to position the chair when it is loaded into a vehicle—exactly the same technique used by the…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

The Most Precise Image of a Post-Earthquake Landscape Ever Created

What Is This?

Suck It, Street View, Navteq Maps the World in 3D… With Lasers

Wind Turbine Laser System Detects Gusts Before They Arrive

Robotic Wheelchair Uses Lasers to Dock Like a Spaceship

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