In the Scan

GLENVIEW, Ill. — Women and Drones will bring five authors to its booth at Commercial UAV Expo next month for a rolling, three-day book signing aimed at the people side of uncrewed aviation. The signings run September 1–3, 2026 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, with each author taking dedicated time at Booth #340 to […]

River corridors are among the most challenging environments to survey because no single technology can capture every feature above and below the waterline. This project demonstrates how integrating airborne lidar, mobile mapping, UAV lidar, and multibeam bathymetry can produce a seamless digital terrain model for engineering, navigation, flood analysis, and long-term river manag...

A University of Florida research team spent two weeks in June and July 2026 collecting paired field measurements and ground-based lidar data across recently burned landscapes and a range of forest conditions in Fish Lake National Forest, Utah, and North Kaibab National Forest, Arizona. The campaign combined terrestrial and mobile laser scanning with conventional stand […]

Point cloud to TIN workflows are essential for transforming lidar data into terrain models used in surveying and civil engineering. Mach9’s latest release brings surface generation, editing, quality assurance, and LandXML export into a single workflow, reducing software handoffs and helping teams move more efficiently from point cloud to engineering-ready deliverables. Surveyors...

A stopped vehicle inside a tunnel, a worker entering an equipment path, debris in a rail corridor, bridge movement after a flood, and slope movement during heavy rainfall all share the same monitoring problem: the information is most valuable when it can be measured, interpreted, and acted on quickly. Real-time LiDAR monitoring uses three-dimensional measurements […]