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Commercial UAV Expo Partners with Pilot Institute to Deliver Comprehensive Education for Drone Pilots

July 24, 2025 Leave a comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Commercial UAV Expo Partners with Pilot Institute to Deliver Comprehensive Education for Drone Pilots Portland, Maine USA — July 22, 2025 — Commercial UAV Expo,the world’s leading commercial drone trade show and conference, announced a partnership with Pilot Institute to deliver a robust slate of educational opportunities for drone pilots at this year’s event, taking place September […]

Beijing Startup Claims Next Generation of Lidar for Autonomous Vehicles

January 3, 2020 Leave a comment

A Beijing Startup May Have Just Built the Next Generation of LIDAR for Automation Cars The Beijing startup veterans from Tsinghua University, co-founders of AodtBJ(Advanced optical detect technology Beijing Aodtbj), have built a sensor for automation cars that can see not just where things are but how fast they’re moving—a potentially critical ability for cars trying to navigate safely around […]

RIEGL Will be Attending and Exhibiting at AGU 2019!

December 3, 2019 Leave a comment

RIEGL will be attending and exhibiting at AGU 2019! The American Geophysical Union 2019 (AGU 2019) conference will be taking place from December 9-13, 2019, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. RIEGL will be exhibiting at Booth 1514 during AGU 2019. Be sure to stop by our booth to learn about the latest developments in RIEGL Waveform-LiDAR technology including our fast-TLS solutions […]

Blue Marble Announces 2018-19 Academic Scholarship Winner and Unveils…

April 5, 2019 Leave a comment

Blue Marble Announces 2018-19 Academic Scholarship Winner and Unveils Scholarship Program for 2019-20 School Year Hallowell, Maine – April 2, 2019 – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018-2019 Academic Scholarship and to introduce the scholarship program for the 2019-2020 school year. Open to any undergraduate or graduate student, the impetus behind this annual […]

Autonomous Highway for Vancouver and Seattle

October 5, 2016 Leave a comment

There is talk of an autonomous vehicle highway connecting Vancouver and Seattle. The proposal is coming from tech entrepreneurs including Tom…Read More at In The Scan Blog

Orbit GT CEO to talk on Business TV show Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland®

September 21, 2016 Leave a comment

PR 2016-09-21 Orbit GT – Orbit GT on WW Business with Kathy Ireland

Free Building Documentation Workshop

July 1, 2016 Leave a comment

FARO and the USIBD are teaming to present a series of free building documentation workshops around the U.S. They will take place in Seattle, Nashville, Dallas and Denver during July and August. Read More at In The Scan

Z + F – SPAR Preview

March 28, 2016 Leave a comment

Please Visit Us at Booth #403 Zoller + Fröhlich (Z+F) will exhibit the latest developments of hardware and software solutions. Visit us at booth #403 and learn how you can reduce your project time by 50% with the Blue Workflow – consisting of the Z+F IMAGER® 5010X and Z+F LaserControl® Scout. The benefits of the Blue Workflow are obvious: beside […]

The Year’s Highlights

December 27, 2015 Leave a comment

Happy New Year (soon) everyone! For this week’s newsletter, we’re highlighting some of the most important and interesting lidar news of 2015. Sign up in our sidebar to get a copy. The Lidar News Team wishes the world a prosperous 2016. Thank you for your support and please continue to visit us regularly for all of your lidar news and […]

Lidar Art Contest 2015!

November 23, 2015 One comment

Hi Folks, The winter solstice is soon approaching and we’ve decided to host the annual Lidar Art contest in honor of the shortest day of the year, after which the light will begin to expand once again. Lidar News will donate $100 to the winner’s charity in their name. We are looking for images with artistic appeal for the holidays. […]

The Power of Lidar

October 14, 2015 Leave a comment

I have written about this discovery, but this is the first time that the “story behind the story” has been reported. A film maker by the name of Steve Elkins has been looking for the Lost city of the Monkey God for the past twenty years without any success But he never gave up. In 2010 he read an article […]