Surveying
New surveying system represents leap forward in field technology to maximize daily output and solve…
Pipeline survey work carries a burden that goes well beyond measurement. In a region where…
The reconstruction of the Ashaiman Roundabout to Akosombo Junction section of Ghana’s Eastern Corridor is…
An Attempt to Restore a Basis of Elevation using GNSS, Aerial Lidar, and Historical Survey…
LIVERMORE, Calif. — February 16, 2026 — Topcon Positioning Systems has introduced the CR-S1, a handheld scanning…
Summary The rise of drone LiDAR and laser scanning technology has transformed how surveyors capture…
Autonomous Vehicles
Automotive lidar is a laser-based sensor that gives cars a precise 3D picture of the…
Four Chinese companies, Hesai, RoboSense, Huawei, and Seyond, controlled 89% of the global automotive lidar…
Lidar vs. cameras is the biggest argument in self-driving technology: do cars need lidar at…
Automotive lidar cost has fallen from about $75,000 per sensor in 2007 to roughly $200…
How automotive lidar works is simple at its core: the sensor fires laser light at…
Rivian will put lidar on its R2 SUV for employees before the end of 2026,…
Drones
Seneca integrates the Ouster Rev8 OS1 Max native color lidar into its firefighting drones for…
GLENVIEW, Ill. — Women and Drones will bring five authors to its booth at Commercial…
Using high-resolution drone-based lidar, researchers uncovered the layout of a sprawling medieval city hidden within…
Autonomous navigation has been built largely on optical sensing. Cameras, lidar, and sensor fusion systems…
Lidar News speaks with Chief Scientist and CEO David Hall about Hall Lidar’s recent announcement…
AI-powered platform delivers covert, precise drone detection, using the most advanced acoustic, radar, manufactured in…
BIM
Cutting Through the Hype in Construction TechToday’s construction industry is overflowing with tech solutions promising…
USIBD Announces Acquisition of Scan to BIM University (STBU) from ClearEdge 3D, Strengthening Industry Education…
Enhancing Infrastructure with Scan to BIM and LiDAR TechnologyGuest Blog post by Mohit AgravatIntroduction The…
Leveraging the USIBD Level of Accuracy (LOA) v3.1 to Enhance Laser Scanning Project Specifications Written…
Webinar: Leveraging Pocket Lidar for Construction Inspection and Digital As-Builts – Phase 1 The Federal…
Guest blog post by Mohit AgravatTop 5 Tips to Cut Construction Costs While Maintaining QualityBalancing…
iPhone
An R&D team at Austrian digitization platform Metaroom by Amrax recently captured a fully operational 60,000-square-metre German hospital using…
From Point Clouds to Practical BIMAnyone familiar with traditional Scan-to-BIM knows the challenges. A typical…
In this guest post, Ian George of Cosmic Oak Media takes us on a journey…
Accurate burn wound measurement is critical for effective treatment, but traditional 2D imaging techniques often…
iPhone Face ID Lidar or Something Else? Many assume the iPhone uses face ID lidar…
If you have an iPhone 12 Pro or later model, you probably know you can…
Robotics
Researchers are bridging the gap between robotic vision and natural language using a breakthrough framework…
The 2026 World Ag Expo in Tulare recently showcased a transformative shift in agricultural technology:…
The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is taking infrastructure maintenance to new depths using underwater robots…
Lidar Robot Vacuum Privacy Breach Exposed by Engineer A recent deep-dive into a bricked robot…
The General Robotics Lab at Duke University has introduced WildFusion, a robotic system designed to…
Rethinking Lidar at the Human ScaleSony’s recent announcement of the AS-DT1 miniature lidar depth sensor…
Environmental Mapping
Tropical forests in the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia can look nearly identical…
By Gerald Mvumi, Geospatial Engineer, Zimbabwe Introduction: When Pixels Become Policy Every day, satellites quietly…
An 84.1-meter Taiwania fir hidden in Taiwan’s rugged Da’an River valley is now recognized as…
River corridors are among the most challenging environments to survey because no single technology can…
A University of Florida research team spent two weeks in June and July 2026 collecting…
UAV vs terrestrial lidar is an ongoing question in forest measurement: can a drone effectively…
Cultural Heritage
Lidar uncovers a lost WWII battlefield on New Georgia Island, where researchers are working to…
A new study in Heritage applies deep learning directly to lidar point clouds, sorting archaeology…
Indian heritage preservation is evolving rapidly as geospatial technologies transform how historical sites are documented,…
CyArk has launched the America 250 Tapestry Collection, a digital heritage initiative celebrating the nation’s…
By Łukasz Huchrak Imagine standing where a pivotal moment in history unfolded—and seeing absolutely nothing.…
3D specialists at the University of Glasgow have initiated a project to digitally preserve the…
