Category Archives: Lidar/Imaging

A Conversation With Spatial Storyteller, Pete Kelsey

Geospatial storytelling, geo-evangelism, and how to build the ultimate reality capture kit. By Pete Kelsey and Gavin Schrock, PLS The geospatial sector has a bona fide “geo celebrity”, and that distinction is well deserved. Pete Kelsey has been out there in the geo trenches with the rest of us for decades. Beginning with military service,...

A Green Light for Shoreline Mapping

Capturing the four distinct elements of shorelines and coastlines often entails using two, three, or more separate systems. Zones of offshore, nearshore, the shoreline, and uplands, captured with separate systems, are stitched together—not always seamlessly. The zones represent a single ecosystem, and the latest approach captures it with one system.

Creating Digital Twins for Water Resource Management in Caves  

A substantial part of Switzerland’s water resources exist in its complex karst aquifers, a critical natural system that continues to pique the interest of researchers. At the Neuchâtel Centre for Hydrogeology and Geothermics (CHYN), a team of scientists led by Professor Phillipe Renard and accompanied by climate scientist Dr. Tanguy Racine launched an initiative seeking...