Lidar Enables Safe and Precise Mapping in Hazardous Environments

Mapping in environments, such as mines and densely-vegetated, remote outdoor locations, can be hazardous to workers and equipment. Lidar is proving to be a valuable addition to unmanned aerial and road-based autonomous vehicles for collecting geospatial data in these environments. That was the focus of a story by Andy Extance in Electro Optics called "Optical ["]