{"id":623,"date":"2014-02-24T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T19:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2014-02-24T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T19:33:29","slug":"lidar-innovations-software-catching-up-alternative-technologies-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Lidar Innovations: Software Catching Up, Alternative Technologies Emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout its history, lidar has been one of the very few technologies in which the exponential growth in the hardware\u2019s ability to collect data has outpaced software\u2019s growing ability to process and visualize that data\u2014largely because it is an unstructured point cloud, unlike raster data, which consists of rows of pixels. Software is catching up, however, offering new ways to manage, edit, and visualize point-cloud data.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, traditional lidar is being challenged by two new and potentially alternative technologies: multi-ray photogrammetry and Flash Lidar, which also generate point-clouds. The former can be used to increase the performance of both light and cheap consumer-grade cameras and of large high-end aerial sensors. Both may soon make 3D sensors small and light enough to be deployed on small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lidar Innovations\" href=\"https:\/\/apogeospatial.com\/lidar-innovations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout its history, lidar has been one of the very few technologies in which the exponential growth in the hardware\u2019s ability to collect data has outpaced software\u2019s growing ability to process and visualize that data\u2014largely because it is an unstructured point cloud, unlike raster data, which consists of rows of pixels. Software is catching up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,43,37,53,25,12,21,11,16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-aerial-photography","category-all","category-apogeospatial","category-feature_articles","category-geospatial_topics","category-lidar","category-recent_articles","category-remote_sensing","category-uas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}