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HomeTag: lidar

A Q&A with Velodyne

I wrote quite a bit about Velodyne in The Laser That’s Changing the World — David Hall, the company’s founder and CEO, is a brilliant engineer who developed the lidar sensor that paved they way for the first great leaps in...

May 23, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, lidar, Velodyne 621

Good times 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 the opportunity to hang out and chat with a bunch of interesting folks for the better part...

January 31, 2019 toddneff ILMF, lidar, lidar history 636

Elon Musk is right: lidar is a crutch

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 not to employ lidar—which uses lasers to scan the world around them...

January 31, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, elon musk, lidar 656

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

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. It’s being integrated on the International Space Station as I type...

December 10, 2018 toddneff GEDI, Goddard Space Flight Center, International Space Station, ISS, lidar 371

Great lidar story in the Christian Science Monitor today

Eva 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. It’s an...

October 5, 2018 toddneff laser scanning, lidar, lidar history, science and the environment 436
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