A new solid state LiDAR chip could, finally, make high resolution depth scanning a reality for small devices. But how does it differ from current systems, and can it really offer the benefits we're ...

Researchers have developed a compact and lightweight single-photon airborne lidar system that can acquire high-resolution 3D images with a low-power laser. This advance could make single-photon lidar ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud ...

Transporting raw materials from mines to ports efficiently is a critical challenge in the mining industry. In Northern Cape, South Africa, a manganese mine faced high costs and inefficiencies moving ...

A top-down view of the lidar. A laser fires from the aperture on the right and then the telescope aperture on the left opens its "eye" briefly to collect photons backscattered from the atmosphere.

Scientists demonstrated the first-ever remote observations of the fine-scale structure at the base of clouds. The results show that the air-cloud interface is a transition zone where aerosol particles ...

Luminar Technologies. has been granted a patent for a lidar system that emits alternating standard-resolution and high-resolution light pulses. This system includes a scanner, receiver, and processor ...

In this guest blog, Karen McNulty Walsh of Brookhaven National Laboratory explains how Michigan Technological University scientists and alumni developed an innovative, centimeter-scale view into ...

A new compact and lightweight single-photon airborne lidar system could make single-photon lidar practical for air and space applications such as 3D terrain mapping. Credit: Feihu Xu, University of ...

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory demonstrated the first-ever remote observations of the fine-scale structure in the birth zone of cloud droplets — the base of clouds where droplets form ...