Interesting Engineering

LiDAR expands counter-drone capabilities against fiber-optic-controlled aerial threats

Innoviz has partnered with Regulus to enhance counter-drone operations using LiDAR for precise tracking of low-flying threats ...

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
Tech Xplore

LiDAR approach could change factory inspections for tiny hard-to-reach parts

Researchers have developed a new LiDAR approach that makes it possible to image small objects with much greater precision and ...
IEEE

Graph-Based Leaf–Wood Separation Method for Individual Trees Using Terrestrial Lidar Point Clouds

Abstract: Terrestrial light detection and ranging (lidar) is capable of resolving trees at the branch/leaf level with accurate and dense point clouds. The separation of leaf and wood components is a ...
GitHub

Tree species classification from from airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data using 3D convolutional neural networks

This is a code repository for our paper Tree species classification from airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data using 3D convolutional neural networks During the last two decades, forest monitoring and ...
Ohio University

Is a future with self-driving vehicles closer than we think? Researchers aim to find out

Transportation of the future may be closer than we think; however, a collaborative project between DriveOhio, the Department of Transportation and Ohio University is finding just how close we may ...
Frontiers

Measuring canopy morphology of saltmarsh plant patches using UAV-based LiDAR data

Schematic and key parameters of the imagery and point cloud data collected by the DJI Zenmuse L1. The optical images and LiDAR data were reconstructed using DJI Terra software into GeoTIFF and LAS ...
Rest of World

Scale AI’s Remotasks platform is dropping whole countries without explanation

Scale AI cites “enhanced security protocols” for the changes, and blames the lack of notice on administrative issues. Remotasks has also halted new sign-ups in Thailand, Vietnam, and Poland. Grace ...