SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Fast Company has recognized Quanergy Systems, Inc., the leading provider of LiDAR sensors and smart sensing solutions, as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2016 in Automotive. The award honors leading enterprises and rising…
Merrick Wins Award for Edwards Air Force Base Habitat Survey
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 24, 2016—Merrick & Company of Greenwood Village, Colo., has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering…
Hexagon Acquires SigmaSpace Corporation, a Leading 3D Mapping Company
Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications,…
Carbon Trust Creates 3D Wind Maps for Offshore Wind Farms
The Carbon Trust today announces the start of the world’s largest trial of scanning Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology which is taking place in Dublin Bay, Ireland. This is the latest Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) project designed to help reduce…
Velodyne LiDAR Pucks to Serve as ‘Eyes’ for NAVYA Driverless ARMA Shuttles
MORGAN HILL, Calif., Jan. 12, 2016—In the first deployment of fully autonomous production vehicles, driverless technology specialist NAVYA will implement Velodyne’s real-time 16-channel 3D VLP-16 LiDAR Pucks as part of a two-year, two-vehicle test with…
Velodyne Announces Order From Ford Motor Company for its Next-Gen Solid-State LiDAR Sensor
MORGAN HILL, Calif., Jan. 5, 2016—Velodyne announced today that it has received a purchase order from Ford Motor Company for its next-generation advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) LiDAR sensor. Velodyne’s new Solid-State Hybrid Ultra Puck™ Auto…
Oregon Preparing for Export: Assessing the Seismic Challenges of a Liquified Natural Gas Plant
In the international port of Coos Bay, Ore., construction will begin in late 2016 on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal that will be the largest private construction project in the state’s history. The bay is separated from the ocean by a tongue…
Arithmetica Announces Pointfuse Hands-On Workshop at Capturing Reality Conference
Shepperton Studios, Nov. 10, 2015 —Visitors to Capturing Reality – the new event for laser scanning, LiDAR and 3D data capture and modelling – will be able to get hands on with the latest rapid point cloud processing software, Pointfuse. Arithmetica,…
Dewberry Selected to Collect Lidar Data for Hawaii’s Big Island
Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has been contracted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Office for Coastal Management to collect and deliver topographic elevation point data derived from multiple return light detection…
Study Shows that Tree Planting Alone May Not Significantly Offset Urban Carbon Emissions
Around the world, from small towns to the biggest cities, civic soldiers in the battle against global warming are striving to cut carbon emissions. One oft-used strategy is to plant more trees, which suck up carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas. But does…
