Tuesday, August 4, 2009

LIDAR


LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is an optical remote sensing technology that measures properties of scattered light to find range and/or other information of a distant target. The prevalent method to determine distance to an object or surface is to use laser pulses.

source: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~widemann/research/Ground_Zero_Lidar.jpg

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