The first really tough part of this journey was crossing the Tien Shan range using the mountain paths that avoided the Taklamakan Desert ... for sure. Lidar drone mapping saved Frachetti ...

In the meantime, the technology has progressed for drone and higher altitude aerial 3D imaging for defense and commercial mapping (forest, urban, real estate). Sylvera has developed a LiDAR ...

GRAND FORKS — Farmers, watershed managers and others with an interest now have easy access to precise information on land elevations and similar data in the Minnesota portion of the Red River ...

To collect the data, the RRWMB contracted with the Colorado-based Sanborn Mapping Co., in 2021 to acquire LiDAR information over 20,034 square miles of northwest Minnesota.