The dangers of military engagement in Afghanistan, which has some of the world’s most forbidding terrain, cannot be overstated. Troop movements are hair-raising, with improvised explosive device ...
The ability of autonomous systems to navigate and interact with their surroundings fundamentally depends on the quality of their environmental models. Accurate, real-time mapping is a critical ...
Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On April 18 th, 2018, NavVis released their M6, a fully-integrated, cart-based system designed for large-scale indoor mapping. The M6 utilizes VLP-16 sensors by ...
Accurate, photorealistic, and operationally actionable 3D campus mapping is a key enabler for smart educational environments, which refers to digitally enabled campuses that integrate spatial data to ...
Although there are plenty of methods for effectively imaging a 3D space, LIDAR is widely regarded as one of the most effective methods. These systems use a rapid succession of laser pulses over a wide ...
Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...
For those wishing to explore robot autonomy, there’s no better way then to learn by doing. [Greg] was in that camp, and decided to build an autonomous rover to roam his house, and learned plenty along ...