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Landsat 8 image of green phytoplankton swirls in the Pacific off Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island.

White-Light Lidar: Combining Geometry and Spectral Information

For decades, lidar has been extraordinarily good at answering one question: where is it in…

September 8, 2026
RGB point cloud in Stitch3D

Point Cloud Sharing Opens Reality Capture to Small Firms

Reality capture has traditionally been too expensive and complex for many small firms to adopt…

August 18, 2026

Real-Time LiDAR Monitoring for Infrastructure

A stopped vehicle inside a tunnel, a worker entering an equipment path, debris in a…

August 5, 2026

Reality Capture Workflows Reimagined with Mach9

Reality capture workflows have changed dramatically over the past decade. More than a decade ago,…

July 27, 2026
The latest version of the Reality Capture Game, with clear setup positions and links between them representing cloud-to-cloud registration

Reality Capture Game Teaches Lidar Scanning Trade-offs

I built a free browser game called Reality Capture Game, published on unsurveyed.xyz, that puts…

July 22, 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
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
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

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
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Case Studies

Sentinel-2 Land Cover Mapping in Zimbabwe

By Gerald Mvumi, Geospatial Engineer, Zimbabwe Introduction: When Pixels Become Policy Every day, satellites quietly…

August 31, 2026
Person using Metaroom, an iPhone LiDAR app

Scanning a 60,000 m² Working Hospital on an iPhone Pro 

An R&D team at Austrian digitization platform Metaroom by Amrax recently captured a fully operational 60,000-square-metre German hospital using…

August 25, 2026

Permian Basin Pipeline Survey with SAM

Pipeline survey work carries a burden that goes well beyond measurement. In a region where…

August 17, 2026

Hybrid LiDAR Surveys Transform River Mapping

River corridors are among the most challenging environments to survey because no single technology can…

August 11, 2026

Lidar Builds the Backbone for 4D Fuel Maps

A University of Florida research team spent two weeks in June and July 2026 collecting…

August 10, 2026

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

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
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

Stitch3D Powers Amazon Archaeology Data Sharing

Stitch3D is a browser-based platform for sharing and visualizing 3D geospatial and lidar data. Terra…

May 5, 2026

Product Demos

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

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

Orthos + Rasters: Viewing and Sharing Made Simple

Orthos + Rasters: Viewing and Sharing Made Simple Raster data powers some of the most…

February 1, 2026

3DMakerPro Moose Review: Consumer-Grade Structured Light Scanner

This is an unpaid 3DMakerPro Moose review. The scanner was provided for free, but there…

September 2, 2025

Power Line Classification From Drone Lidar

LP360 lidar and photogrammetry point cloud software provides a quick and efficient approach to power…

October 9, 2024

Ground Classification with LP360 at Geo Week 2023

LP360 is a powerful software suite designed for processing and analyzing geospatial data, specifically LiDAR…

December 28, 2023

Advanced Lidar Data Processing with LP360 Software

When it comes to processing LiDAR and photogrammetric data, GIS professionals have been relying on…

August 24, 2023

Scan to BIM – How to Deal with Real World Imperfections

Thanks to Dan Edleson for this third guest blog post discussing the imperfections that need…

April 23, 2023

Leica BLK2FLY Drone: User-Friendly Features and App Controls

A blog post from Leica Geosystems by Paul LaGreca interviewing Product Managers for the BLK2FLY…

November 11, 2021

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