Seeing the forest through the trees with a new LiDAR system
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 13:02
in Physics & Chemistry
Shortly after lasers were first developed in the 1960s, LiDAR—whose name originated as a combination of "light" and "radar"—capitalized on the newly unique precision they offered for measuring both time and distance. LiDAR quickly became the standard method for (3-D) land surveys and is now used in a multitude of sensing applications, such as self-driving cars.