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Real-Time LiDAR Monitoring for Infrastructure

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

August 5, 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
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
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
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
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Photogrammetry

Predicting Wavefront Error in Optical Coatings

Written by the Alluxa Engineering Team An analytical approach to predicting coating-contributed surface error when…

February 26, 2026

3D Photogrammetry of Bulgarian Industrial Site by Weider360

Historic Documentation in 3D: A Young Professional’s First Photogrammetry Case Study – BulgariaWeider360 Founder Martin…

August 19, 2025

3D Gaussian Splat Printing: From Photogrammetry to “Splatcubes”

Gaussian splats have revolutionized the visual quality of photogrammetry models, but there’s still something missing.…

May 12, 2025

Hexagon Updates Aerial Data for 14 U.S. States

(Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 23 July 2024) Hexagon’s Geosystems division announced that the Hexagon Content Program will update…

July 23, 2024

Photogrammetry in Volcanic Mapping: Iceland’s Latest Eruption

For a country that is a hotbed of volcanic and seismic activity, geoscientists in Iceland…

May 8, 2024
Leica DMC-4 airborne imaging sensor displayed over a detailed aerial map

Leica Geosystems announces new Leica DMC-4..

Leica Geosystems announces new Leica DMC-4 airborne imaging sensor delivering superior image fidelityNew airborne imaging…

September 12, 2022

3D Modeling

Autonomous Navigation Lidar for ESA Moon Mission

Editor’s Note: Autonomous navigation lidar is enabling machines to understand and navigate complex environments without…

July 28, 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
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

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

SLAM Lidar Digital Twin: Fast and Efficient

SLAM Lidar is enabling rapid digital twin creation by capturing complex environments and processing them…

April 13, 2026

Autonomous Mining Technology for 2026

The mining industry is undergoing a digital transformation as it moves toward fully autonomous underground…

February 27, 2026

Revolutionizing Urban Surveying with Mobile Mapping

Urban surveying is evolving rapidly. With reality capture tools and advanced digital workflows, 3D data…

October 8, 2025

Recorded Webinar on Mobile Mapping for Urban Surveying

Urban surveying is evolving rapidly. With reality capture tools and advanced digital workflows, 3D data…

October 7, 2025

OmniSLAM R8+ Scanner: Transforming Urban Data in Bratislava

IntroductionThe rapid advancement of 3D laser scanning technology has revolutionized urban data acquisition, enabling high-precision,…

May 1, 2025
Dr. Stefan Hrabar, co-founder of Emesent

Emesent Hovermap Lidar: Dr. Stefan Hrabar’s Journey

Introducing Emesent and Dr. Hrabar Many of our readers are familiar with Emesent, a global…

March 25, 2025

Point Cloud Processing

Point Cloud to TIN: Mach9 Adds Surface Workflows

Point cloud to TIN workflows are essential for transforming lidar data into terrain models used…

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

Digital Surveyor 2 Release and Webinar – Mach9

Over the past decade, the industry has solved one major challenge: capturing more data, faster.…

March 19, 2026

Optimize Your Digital Workflow: Free Demo with Cintoo

Optimize Your Digital Workflow: Free Demo with Cintoo In this upcoming demo, Cintoo will show…

January 28, 2026

AI Hardware Revolutionizing Reality Capture Processes

AI is transforming reality capture almost as quickly as it processes data. Today, more accurate…

December 11, 2025

Mining Stockpile Measurement Software: Stitch3D Wins $100K

Stitch3D has won $100K for its innovative mining stockpile measurement software, designed to simplify stockpile…

November 20, 2025

CTO of Hexagon – Keynote at Geo Week 2026

Burkhard Boeckem, CTO of Hexagon, to Deliver Keynote at Geo Week 2026 Presentation on precision…

November 4, 2025

Advisory Board Announced for Geo Week 2026

Advisory Board Announced for Geo Week 2026 Geo Week Advisory Board is set to help…

October 19, 2025

Cintoo Integrates High-Fidelity 3D Scans with ArcGIS

Cintoo launches ArcGIS integration with high-fidelity 3D scan data  MIAMI, FL – October 7, 2025: Cintoo has announced the release of its…

October 7, 2025

Geo Week Scholarship Applications Now Open

Geo Week Event Scholarship Applications Now Open – Emphasis on “Tech for Good” Scholarship to…

September 24, 2025

Visual Twins: Democratizing Geospatial Data Access

By Barry Bassnett, Liverpool, UK – July 2025Barry has been mapping and measuring the planet…

July 8, 2025

Frontier Precision Announces Strategic Partnership With Tabula!

Frontier Precision Announces Strategic Partnership With Tabula! Frontier Precision is proud to announce a strategic…

June 26, 2025
Topcon Positioning Systems secures early access to Xona's Pulsar satellite navigation service

Topcon Accesses Xona Pulsar satellite navigtion

LIVERMORE, Calif — February 12, 2026 Topcon Positioning Systems has signed a commercial agreement with…

February 12, 2026

Inertial Navigation Systems for Lidar

This article was written in collaboration with Iain Clarke, Senior Product Engineer at Development in…

June 19, 2025

SBG – New GNSS Receiver Variants for Navsight, Apogee and Ekinox

SBG Systems Introduces New GNSS Receiver Variants for Navsight, Apogee and Ekinox Carrières-sur-Seine, October 11th,…

March 14, 2025

SBG Systems unveils the new Ellipse

SBG Systems unveils the new Ellipse: a leap in performance with a simple and free…

March 11, 2025

Precisely Position your Pointclouds with OxTS

Precisely Position your Pointclouds with OxTS OxTS GNSS-aided inertial navigation systems (GNSS/INS) are used across…

February 3, 2025

OXTS Advances GNSS-Denied Navigation with Sensor Fusion

Is Sensor Fusion the Future of Navigation? Find out at stand #933, where OXTS is…

January 28, 2025

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