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Glacier Mapping Unlocks New Tools for Surveyors

Glacier mapping often begins where conventional field surveys reach their limits. There’s a moment in…

July 14, 2026

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…

July 13, 2026

Gold Rush Mapping Reveals Relics and Dangers

Advanced airborne lidar is transforming gold rush mapping in Victoria, Australia. A four-year survey by…

July 13, 2026

Drone LiDAR Wildfire Mapping in Saskatchewan

How Stitch3D Expedited Real-Time Disaster Response A mixed drone lidar and photogrammetry workflow was deployed…

July 7, 2026

CyArk America 250 Tapestry Collection

CyArk has launched the America 250 Tapestry Collection, a digital heritage initiative celebrating the nation’s…

July 7, 2026

Lidar Supports Vivid Sydney Projection Mapping

For Vivid Sydney’s Creative Technology After Dark, lidar scanning was used to create accurate digital…

July 7, 2026

Preserving an Icon: Liberty Bell Digital Twin

The Liberty Bell Digital Twin Project recently created the first free, high-resolution public digital twin…

July 2, 2026
An aerial 3D visualization generated from LiDAR data, showcasing exposed sand bars and high banks of the North Canadian River as it meanders through the landscape.

Airborne LiDAR Lays Foundation for Oklahoma Energy Project

Blew & Associates completed an airborne LiDAR survey of approximately 400 acres near Shawnee, Oklahoma,…

June 30, 2026

Moonraker: Space-Based LiDAR the Next Frontier 

How NUVIEW’s ESA-selected lunar mission will support safer exploration, lower mission risk, and strengthen the…

June 26, 2026
The four stages of 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction, visualised as a single progression. A sparse point cloud provides the initial spatial skeleton (left); large overlapping Gaussian primitives are seeded from those points and begin to occupy volume (second); the optimiser densifies and refines those primitives, packing them tighter as the form converges (third); finally, alpha-compositing from the correct viewpoint produces a photorealistic render with no visible primitives remaining (right). The primitives never disappear, they simply become coherent. This is not a surface mesh, not a voxel grid, not a neural network at render time. It is millions of learned ellipsoids, each carrying position, shape, rotation, colour and opacity, composited in depth order at real-time frame rates. Image: Mike Devers / Cr8ive Media

Gaussian Splatting and LiDAR: A Practitioner’s Field Guide

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is one of the most talked-about technologies in reality capture right…

June 23, 2026
New Coherent Lidar Expands What 3D Sensing Can See

New Coherent Lidar Expands What 3D Sensing Can See

A new lidar system developed by researchers at the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute,…

June 23, 2026

GPS Heritage Mapping: Invisible History Revealed

By Łukasz Huchrak  Imagine standing where a pivotal moment in history unfolded—and seeing absolutely nothing.…

June 22, 2026

500-Year-Old Football Gets a Digital Twin

3D specialists at the University of Glasgow have initiated a project to digitally preserve the…

June 22, 2026

Cyprus History With 3D Heritage Modeling

An island-based French artist is blending traditional physical sculpting with modern digital workflows to preserve…

June 19, 2026
Fully NDAA-compliant UAV solution featuring the Phoenix RANGER-Flex and Harris Aerial H6E.

What is NDAA-Compliant LiDAR?

In the United States, NDAA-compliant LiDAR has become an increasingly important consideration for survey, mapping,…

June 17, 2026

World Cup Technology: Digital Twins and Smart Balls

FIFA’s latest World Cup technology combines high-resolution 3D body scans, sensor-equipped match balls, and real-time…

June 15, 2026

New Zealand Launches National Coastal Lidar Dataset

The Challenge of Coastal Geospatial Data For all the advances in geospatial technology over the…

June 15, 2026
LiDAR for smart cities elevated lidar monitoring

LiDAR for Smart Cities: From Vehicles to Intelligent Infrastructure

For many people, LiDAR is still strongly associated with autonomous vehicles: cars scanning roads, detecting…

June 9, 2026

Delhi Digital Twin for Tax and Asset Management

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is using drones, GIS, and digital twin technology to identify…

June 9, 2026

Echolocation Drone Inspired by Bats

Autonomous navigation has been built largely on optical sensing. Cameras, lidar, and sensor fusion systems…

June 8, 2026

XPONENTIAL Detroit: UAS Industry in Transition

XPONENTIAL 2026 Detroit brought together leaders from across the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), drone, robotics,…

June 5, 2026

AI and Lidar in Forestry: The Future of Forest Data

Key Takeaways: Artificial intelligence and lidar are transforming forestry from sample-based inventories to comprehensive digital…

June 2, 2026

Lidar Reveals Lost Adirondack Settlement

What was once hidden beneath nearly two centuries of forest growth is beginning to reappear…

June 1, 2026
LOA Practitioner's Guide

USIBD Level of Accuracy (LOA) Practitioner’s Guide

Accuracy Isn’t a Setting LiDAR technology has transformed the way existing conditions are captured across…

June 1, 2026

Call for Speakers Geo Week 2027

Geo Week Seeks Impactful Presentations; Accepting Speaker Submissions Through July 17 Leading geospatial and mapping…

May 29, 2026

The Future of Lidar and 3D Sensors

As consolidation reshapes the industry, the future of lidar and 3D sensors is increasingly being…

May 29, 2026

Consumer Lidar Can See Around Corners

This article covers new MIT research that brings non-line-of-sight imaging capabilities to affordable consumer-grade lidar…

May 26, 2026

Commercial UAV Expo 2026 Announces Conference Program

Commercial UAV Expo Announces 2026 Conference Program Influenced by Community Feedback Under the theme “Actionable…

May 25, 2026

Webinar: LGSx to Deliverable – Leica + Mach9

Leica Geosystems and Mach9 Showcase End-to-End Reality Capture Workflow Webinar: From LGSx to Deliverable Reality…

May 22, 2026

How Flyover Zone Rebuilds 3D Ancient Worlds

Some technologies capture the world as it is. Others attempt something far more difficult—rebuilding what…

May 21, 2026

Great Salt Lake Mapping With Green Laser Lidar

The Utah Geological Survey is employing bathymetric lidar to peel back the brine of the…

May 18, 2026

Compact Lidar and Operational 3D Sensing Future

Recent research from MIT News exploring advances in optical phased arrays and silicon photonics points…

May 17, 2026

Webinar: Scan-First Digital Twins for Operations

Digital twins are often positioned as visualization tools, but in practice, many organizations struggle to…

May 15, 2026

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