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HomeTag: lidar

Lidar (and me) on the Curiosityness podcast

TweetShareShareTravis DeRose of the excellent Curiosityness podcast — an eclectic and fascinating smorgasbord with episodes spanning the visual effects of Star Wars, how to get started mountain biking, the Presidential Pet Museum, the...

September 15, 2020 toddneff #curiosityness, #iphone12, #lidarhistory, lidar 438

Lidar to hit mainstream in pockets (not on cars)

TweetShareShareWhat will having a laser mapper in your pocket...

August 25, 2020 toddneff #iphone12, #lidarhistory, lidar 738

A Q&A with Velodyne

TweetShareShareI 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...

May 23, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, lidar, Velodyne 1061

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...

January 31, 2019 toddneff ILMF, lidar, lidar history 1029

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...

January 31, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, elon musk, lidar 1095

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...

December 10, 2018 toddneff GEDI, Goddard Space Flight Center, International Space Station, ISS, lidar 736

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...

October 5, 2018 toddneff laser scanning, lidar, lidar history, science and the environment 777
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