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, I came to get some sense of the lidar landscape for a book project I was thinking about proposing. That experience distilled into the opener…
Google's driverless, autonomous vehicles portend a radical chance in how we get around. (courtesy Google)
AVs (not audiovisual, but rather autonomous vehicles) are poised to change the developed world. It seems that about everyone who looks at transportation comes to the same conclusion. It takes a bit of explaining as to why, and a recent piece I wrote for…
My driver’s license expires at the end of December, so I decided today was a good time to get in and get it renewed. I had to go in-person, the ten-year license I was issued in 2004 not allowing online renewal. So I watched my eight year old climb on the big yellow school bus…
Elon Musk and Alan Stern teamed up for a public event sponsored by University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) 10 days ago (April 29). With the caveat that I'm not as versed in New Space as I am "old space" (what do you call the space program as we know it…
The CU Center for Environmental Journalism forwarded a note with this link this morning, to a Wired.com article about how Al Gore and Push Up Press are aiming to "blow up the book." As someone who recently wrote a book and then converted it into Kindle and ePub formats, this caught my attention. Push Up…