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Women and Drones Event at Commercial UAV Expo

GLENVIEW, Ill. — Women and Drones will bring five authors…

August 12, 2026

Hybrid LiDAR Surveys Transform River Mapping

River corridors are among the most challenging environments to survey…

August 11, 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,…

July 22, 2026

Drone LiDAR Wildfire Mapping in Saskatchewan

How Stitch3D Expedited Real-Time Disaster Response A mixed drone lidar…

July 7, 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…

June 23, 2026

GPS Heritage Mapping: Invisible History Revealed

By Łukasz Huchrak  Imagine standing where a pivotal moment in…

June 22, 2026
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LiDAR for Smart Cities: From Vehicles to Intelligent Infrastructure

For many people, LiDAR is still strongly associated with autonomous…

June 9, 2026

XPONENTIAL Detroit: UAS Industry in Transition

XPONENTIAL 2026 Detroit brought together leaders from across the unmanned…

June 5, 2026
LOA Practitioner's Guide

USIBD Level of Accuracy (LOA) Practitioner’s Guide

Accuracy Isn’t a Setting LiDAR technology has transformed the way…

June 1, 2026

Tuvalu Digital Twin: Mapping a Nation at Risk

Written by Caroline Beach Tuvalu is a small Pacific island…

May 4, 2026

XPONENTIAL Europe: Key Shifts in the UAS Industry

XPONENTIAL Europe offered a view into how the unmanned systems…

May 1, 2026

Staro Zdanje Castle 3D Digitization Preserves History

Staro Zdanje Castle 3D modeling brings new value to the…

March 31, 2026

Historic Datum Restoration in Copco Lake, CA

An Attempt to Restore a Basis of Elevation using GNSS,…

March 3, 2026

Predicting Wavefront Error in Optical Coatings

Written by the Alluxa Engineering Team An analytical approach to…

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