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March 18, 2013

Mobile LIDAR technology expanding rapidly
Corvallis OR (SPX) Mar 18, 2013
Imagine driving down a road a few times and obtaining in an hour more data about the surrounding landscape than a crew of surveyors could obtain in months. Such is the potential of mobile LIDAR, a powerful technology that's only a few years old and promises to change the way we see, study and record the world around us. It will be applied in transportation, hydrology, forestry, virtual tourism and construction - and almost no one knows anything about it. That may change with a new report on ... read more

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