This is in 1/210,100th of the sky
TweetShareShareWith the Hubble Legacy Field, what it doesn’t capture is as remarkable as what it...
Good times at ILMF 2019
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...
Elon Musk is right: lidar is a crutch
TweetShareShareElon 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 not to employ lidar—which uses lasers to scan the world...
At ILMF 2019, a mobile lidar story about Afghanistan 2003
TweetShareShareI’m 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 distilled into...
GEDI is on the ISS (“May the forest be with it”)
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...
Great lidar story in the Christian Science Monitor today
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...
What the #$%& is lidar?
TweetShareShareI was recently in touch with a writer friend of mine who lives in London. We’re both old enough that we emailed rather than Snapchatted or WhatsApped. I mentioned that I was writing a book about the history of lidar. He’s a wry...
Did you have a life-changing professor? Mine got fired on Aug. 3.
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 who...
Quick commentary on a Coors ad
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 drinking...
Parents of teenagers: Juul should scare yuu
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 involve...
Think small
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...
These colors are bleeding
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 “Little Marco” can now hold the Republican tax bill...