"\"TweetShareShareThe 2019 edition of the International Lidar Mapping Forum is a wrap. The folks at Diversified Communications provided a booth (thank you!), which gave me the opportunity to hang out and chat with a bunch of interesting folks for...
"TweetShareShareElon Musk was right when he called lidar a \u201ccrutch\u201d when it came to self-driving cars. Where he\u2019s not right, though, is that the technology\u2019s crutchitude is somehow a reason not to employ lidar\u2014which uses l...
"\"TweetShareShareI\\u2019m at the International Lidar Mapping Forum in Denver for the third-straight year. The first year, I came to get some sense of the lidar landscape for a book project I was thinking about proposing. That experience...
"\"TweetShareShareI’m a little late on this (thanks to Eric Desfonds of Excelitas for the reminder this morning), but GEDI launched on Wednesday, Dec. 5, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket. It’s being integrated on the International Space...
"\"TweetShareShareEva Botkin-Kowacki’s excellent big-picture story on lidar is out today in the Christian Science Monitor. In her reporting, she came across “The Laser That’s Changing the World” and, from there, me....
"\"TweetShareShareI was recently in touch with a writer friend of mine who lives in London. We\\u2019re both old enough that we emailed rather than Snapchatted or WhatsApped. I mentioned that I was writing a book about the history of lidar....
"\"TweetShareShareI posted this on the Wolverine Forum, the University of Michigan Alumni Association’s online community a few days ago; figured it should see the light outside the community’s gates and re-post here. For those of you...
"\"TweetShareShareI’m a fan of Coors, particularly of the family, which does great philanthropic work around here. Its marketing materials are a consistent source of enjoyment, too, particularly the Coors Light side, which posits that...
"\"TweetShareShareI’m as out of touch as my parents were as far as what teens are up to. I had to look up “Fortnite” yesterday. I spelled it like the poetic way to say “two weeks.” Generally, if it doesn’t...
"\"TweetShareShareMy 12-year-old daughter has generous grandparents. Her paternal grandmother inquired about Christmas-gift possibilities. My daughter came up with the idea of a microscope. Her grandmother was all over it. My daughter’s...
"\"TweetShareShareWatching as the Trump Administration and Senate leaders pander to those rare Republican holdouts is one part entertaining (The Florida senator Trump once insulted, repeatedly, as \\u201cLittle Marco\\u201d can now hold the...
"\"TweetShareShareI was driving the carpool home down east Sixth Avenue in Denver yesterday. This is million-dollar territory, grand old houses, big lawns. Huge trees with lots of leaves, both on the properties themselves and in the...
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