Every night, under the cover of darkness, countless small sea creatures ā from squid to krill ā swim from the ocean depths to near the surface to feed. This vast animal migration ā the large... Read more
New instrument offers fast, low-cost tool to fight ecological degradation in Yellowstone National Park For decades the National Park Service has been locked in a battle against lake trout, a... Read more
Someday your self-driving car could react to hazards before you even see them, thanks to a laser-based imaging technology being developed by Stanford researchers that can peek around corners... Read more
3D scanning takes many shapes and forms, but all take something from LiDAR (Light detection and ranging). This has been around since the invention of the laser itself, and uses light beams t... Read more
Mobile LIDAR may someday be a key to driverless automobiles ImagineĀ driving down a roadĀ a few times and obtaining in an hour more data about the surrounding landscape than a crew of surveyor... Read more