Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...

UAVs have brought photogrammetry back as a bread and butter tool for surveying. They’ve put mapping back on the map. But often we see large ambitious UAV projects undertaken, to capture long stretches ...

(TNS) — After a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Yurok Tribe plans on getting a customized fixed-wing aircraft that will provide mapping and data collection for their lands ...

GeoWing Mapping, Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with SkyIMD, Inc. of Richmond, CA, and Hawk Aerial, LLC, of Napa, CA. The combined capabilities of the partners extend the range of services, ...

Komatsu has been running commercial drone mapping test trials for the past few years now in order to refine its Smart Construction business model that aims to provide a top-down workflow for ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christopher Hernandez, Loyola University Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) Picture an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial lidar survey can 'see' beneath the forest canopy. Photodisc via Getty Images Picture an aircraft streaking across the ...