For Christmas this year, [Scottshambaugh] decided to make his family a map of their hometown — Portland, ME. Using topographical map data, he made this jaw-dropping 3D map, and it looks amazing. He ...
Combining a database with over 1.5 billion shots, GPS and an ultra-accurate laser, the Arccos Smart Laser goes far beyond distance and slope.
Within a year or two, the U.S. military could field a portable, laser backpack device that will provide a three-dimensional (3-D) map of buildings. The reconnoitering pack could be used by ...
A LiDAR survey confirms a gunpowder-era bastion fortress hidden in eastern Poland near the Bug River frontier.
Picture yourself standing by a river, watching as a drone hums overhead. Below, its lidar system scans the landscape, mapping both the land and the shallow waters with pinpoint accuracy. This is ...
For Christmas this year, [Scottshambaugh] decided to make his family a map of their hometown — Portland, ME. Using topographical map data, he made this jaw-dropping 3D map, and it looks amazing. He ...
Developed initially for the company's GPS-sensor club performance tracking software, the Arccos course knowledge has been built with data recorded from more than 1.5 billion shots by Arccos users. Now ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about all things space -- exploration, astronomy and more. The excitement on the phone was palatable. Mission managers had ...
It's Oregon like you've never seen it -- at least on a map. Using a laser-based terrain mapping system, the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries has produced giant color images of the ...
A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote ...