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Brett Ruether

Brett Ruether, contributing author to Lidar News

GEDI Shows Tropical Forests Don’t Follow One Climate Rule

Tropical forests in the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast…

October 6, 2026

Emesent GX1 SLAM Takes On the Hardest Test

Six minutes, one pole-mounted scanner, and a stretch of Montana…

September 28, 2026

Lidar Archaeology Moves Closer to Automation

A new study in Heritage applies deep learning directly to…

August 25, 2026

Lidar Builds the Backbone for 4D Fuel Maps

A University of Florida research team spent two weeks in…

August 10, 2026

UAV vs Terrestrial Lidar for Canopy Height

UAV vs terrestrial lidar is an ongoing question in forest…

August 3, 2026

Lidar Tracks California Landslides

Editor’s Note: Lidar is helping researchers better understand landslides along…

July 21, 2026

Glacier Mapping Unlocks New Tools for Surveyors

Glacier mapping often begins where conventional field surveys reach their…

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…

July 13, 2026

New Zealand Launches National Coastal Lidar Dataset

The Challenge of Coastal Geospatial Data For all the advances…

June 15, 2026

AI and Lidar in Forestry: The Future of Forest Data

Key Takeaways: Artificial intelligence and lidar are transforming forestry from…

June 2, 2026

Consumer Lidar Can See Around Corners

This article covers new MIT research that brings non-line-of-sight imaging…

May 26, 2026

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