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  • Books
    • A Beard Cut Short
      • “Beard” Extras
      • “A Beard Cut Short” Errata
    • A Brief History of Automotive Lidar
    • The Laser That’s Changing the World
      • Extras: The Laser That’s Changing the World
        • Lidar History Timeline
        • Photos and video: The Laser That’s Changing the World
          • “Ancient” History
          • Alamosa and NASA’s Airborne Snow Observatory
          • Automotive
          • Carnegie Mellon
          • Cyra Technologies and CyArk
          • Direct Dimensions
          • Firepond
          • ILMF 2018
          • Mcity
          • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the GGAO
          • Near Earth Autonomy
          • Point Clouds
          • Wallops, Optech, Chu and NCAR
      • Reviews: The Laser That’s Changing the World
    • From Jars to the Stars
      • From Jars to the Stars: Reviews
      • Deep Impact multimedia
      • From Jars to the Stars: Errata
  • Blog
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  • Books
    • A Beard Cut Short
      • “Beard” Extras
      • “A Beard Cut Short” Errata
    • A Brief History of Automotive Lidar
    • The Laser That’s Changing the World
      • Extras: The Laser That’s Changing the World
        • Lidar History Timeline
        • Photos and video: The Laser That’s Changing the World
          • “Ancient” History
          • Alamosa and NASA’s Airborne Snow Observatory
          • Automotive
          • Carnegie Mellon
          • Cyra Technologies and CyArk
          • Direct Dimensions
          • Firepond
          • ILMF 2018
          • Mcity
          • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the GGAO
          • Near Earth Autonomy
          • Point Clouds
          • Wallops, Optech, Chu and NCAR
      • Reviews: The Laser That’s Changing the World
    • From Jars to the Stars
      • From Jars to the Stars: Reviews
      • Deep Impact multimedia
      • From Jars to the Stars: Errata
  • Blog
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  • Grammar Geezers
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Good times at ILMF 2019

January 31, 20190Comments
Manning the booth at ILMF 2019 The 2019 edition of the International Lidar Mapping Forum is a wrap. The folks at Diversified Communications provided a booth (thank you!), which gave me…

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Elon Musk is right: lidar is a crutch

January 31, 20190Comments
Elon Musk was right when he called lidar a “crutch” when it came to self-driving cars. Where he’s not right, though, is that the technology’s crutchitude is somehow a reason…

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At ILMF 2019, a mobile lidar story about Afghanistan 2003

January 29, 20190Comments
The Riegl booth at ILMF 2019. The technology has come a long way since 2003. I’m at the International Lidar Mapping Forum in Denver for the third-straight year. The first year,…

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GEDI is on the ISS (“May the forest be with it”)

December 10, 20180Comments
I'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.…

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Great lidar story in the Christian Science Monitor today

October 5, 20180Comments
A lidar image of the Borrego Fault in Baja California, Mexico, courtesy of the University of California, Davis Eva Botkin-Kowacki's excellent big-picture story on lidar is out today in the Christian…

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