Virtual Surveyor has added Basic Topographic Design tools to Version 10 of its smart drone surveying package allowing users ...

Some parts of Hawaii are sinking faster than others. That discovery, published in Communications Earth & Environment by ...

Researchers have found a treasure trove of structures from an ancient civilization — by using a modern technology.

You could walk along an ancient Chaco road and not know it. To a studied eye, there might be signs: a stripe of rocks here, a depression there. Some areas might have broken pieces of pottery sprinkled ...

The effects of climate change are becoming impossible to ignore, especially in rapidly urbanizing African cities. Events like floods, droughts, and cyclones are causing widespread disruption, ...

Lumotive CEO Sam Heidari. (Lumotive Photo) The company’s tech offers an alternative to traditional LiDAR systems and aims to make 3D sensing cheaper, faster, and more scalable. “This funding ...

This paper proposes an image-guided depth completion algorithm to address this issue. The method uses the edges of the color image as prior constraints to construct an image topography map as an ...

The technique, known as lidar (light detection and ranging), works by having a machine aboard an aircraft send millions of laser pulses toward the ground and then calculating how long it takes for the ...