Glacier Mapping Unlocks New Tools for Surveyors
Glacier mapping often begins where conventional field surveys reach their limits. There’s a moment in every survey plan when the terrain wins. The slope…
Drowning in Data, but Starving for Maps in the Deep Blue Sea
How Crowdsourced Bathymetry is Staying Afloat For decades, the deepest parts of the ocean have remained vast, unmapped voids covering most of our planet.…
Gold Rush Mapping Reveals Relics and Dangers
Advanced airborne lidar is transforming gold rush mapping in Victoria, Australia. A four-year survey by the Geological Survey of Victoria uncovered more than 230,000…
Drone LiDAR Wildfire Mapping in Saskatchewan
How Stitch3D Expedited Real-Time Disaster Response A mixed drone lidar and photogrammetry workflow was deployed during the 2025 Wolf Fire response in Denare Beach,…
CyArk America 250 Tapestry Collection
CyArk has launched the America 250 Tapestry Collection, a digital heritage initiative celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary. The project uses 3D gaussian splatting to…
Glacier Mapping Unlocks New Tools for Surveyors
Drowning in Data, but Starving for Maps in the Deep Blue Sea
Gold Rush Mapping Reveals Relics and Dangers
Drone LiDAR Wildfire Mapping in Saskatchewan
CyArk America 250 Tapestry Collection
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How Crowdsourced Bathymetry is Staying Afloat For decades, the deepest parts of the ocean have…
Advanced airborne lidar is transforming gold rush mapping in Victoria, Australia. A four-year survey by…
How Stitch3D Expedited Real-Time Disaster Response A mixed drone lidar and photogrammetry workflow was deployed…
CyArk has launched the America 250 Tapestry Collection, a digital heritage initiative celebrating the nation’s…
For Vivid Sydney’s Creative Technology After Dark, lidar scanning was used to create accurate digital…
The Liberty Bell Digital Twin Project recently created the first free, high-resolution public digital twin…
Lidar
Blew & Associates completed an airborne LiDAR survey of approximately 400 acres near Shawnee, Oklahoma,…
In the United States, NDAA-compliant LiDAR has become an increasingly important consideration for survey, mapping,…
For many people, LiDAR is still strongly associated with autonomous vehicles: cars scanning roads, detecting…
Accuracy Isn’t a Setting LiDAR technology has transformed the way existing conditions are captured across…
As consolidation reshapes the industry, the future of lidar and 3D sensors is increasingly being…
This article covers new MIT research that brings non-line-of-sight imaging capabilities to affordable consumer-grade lidar…
Photogrammetry
Written by the Alluxa Engineering Team An analytical approach to predicting coating-contributed surface error when…
Historic Documentation in 3D: A Young Professional’s First Photogrammetry Case Study – BulgariaWeider360 Founder Martin…
Gaussian splats have revolutionized the visual quality of photogrammetry models, but there’s still something missing.…
(Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 23 July 2024) Hexagon’s Geosystems division announced that the Hexagon Content Program will update…
For a country that is a hotbed of volcanic and seismic activity, geoscientists in Iceland…
Leica Geosystems announces new Leica DMC-4 airborne imaging sensor delivering superior image fidelityNew airborne imaging…
3D Modeling
For Vivid Sydney’s Creative Technology After Dark, lidar scanning was used to create accurate digital…
The Liberty Bell Digital Twin Project recently created the first free, high-resolution public digital twin…
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is one of the most talked-about technologies in reality capture right…
A new lidar system developed by researchers at the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute,…
An island-based French artist is blending traditional physical sculpting with modern digital workflows to preserve…
FIFA’s latest World Cup technology combines high-resolution 3D body scans, sensor-equipped match balls, and real-time…
Surveying
The reconstruction of the Ashaiman Roundabout to Akosombo Junction section of Ghana’s Eastern Corridor is…
An Attempt to Restore a Basis of Elevation using GNSS, Aerial Lidar, and Historical Survey…
LIVERMORE, Calif. — February 16, 2026 — Topcon Positioning Systems has introduced the CR-S1, a handheld scanning…
Summary The rise of drone LiDAR and laser scanning technology has transformed how surveyors capture…
Mobile Mapping Italy’s Fiber Network at National Scale In this article, we cover: Transportation and…
Mines function like self-contained cities, generating massive amounts of geospatial data through a complex array…
Drones
Autonomous navigation has been built largely on optical sensing. Cameras, lidar, and sensor fusion systems…
Lidar News speaks with Chief Scientist and CEO David Hall about Hall Lidar’s recent announcement…
AI-powered platform delivers covert, precise drone detection, using the most advanced acoustic, radar, manufactured in…
Summary Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations are beginning to transform several industries.…
Autonomous UAV Collision Detection Mining is an industry made up of extremes. Hazardous physical environments,…
Velodyne Space to Showcase Counter-UAS System at CES 2026 David Hall and his team at…
