It was fitted with a rotating drum containing 64 lasers for Lidar, a Global Positioning System, an Inertial navigation system and 5 high definition cameras.
The LiDAR system was installed in an aircraft flown over Caracol.
RADAR, LIDAR, and SODAR are examples of active remote sensing techniques used in atmospheric physics where the time delay between emission and return is measured, establishing the location, height, speed and direction of an object.
Because the atmosphere is quite transparent to infrared light, CO2 lasers are also used for military rangefinding using LIDAR techniques.
One of the more unusual features of the hamlet is the nearby LIDAR system, which is run by the University of Manchester.
With the rapid increase of sources of DEMs today (and especially due to the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission and LIDAR-based projects), extraction of land surface parameters is becoming more and more attractive to numerous fields ranging from precision agriculture, soil-landscape modelling, climatic and hydrological applications to urban planning, education and space research.
After co-supervising development for 3-D paint effect stylizations and LIDAR laser scanning for What Dreams May Come (1998 Visual Effects Oscar winner), Gaeta began his first solo effects supervision project for Larry and Andy Wachowski's film, The Matrix.
A key feature of the expedition was its use of helicopter-mounted Lidar technology to scan the Phnom Kulen area and then map the city layout.
In 2012 McElhanney's branch office in Jakarta, Indonesia acquired LiDAR and digital aerial photography for archaeologists working in the Angkor region of Cambodia studying the history of the Khmer Empire.
Einar Enevoldson conceived the project in 1992, after seeing the new LIDAR images of standing mountain waves west of Kiruna, Sweden, that Dr.Wolfgang Renger of the DLR, Oberpffafenhofen, Germany posted on his office wall.
Programs to manipulate LiDAR data include ENVI, ERDAS IMAGINE, ArcInfo, and ESRI ArcView (with 3D analyst ext.) One useful derivation of LiDAR data is the DEM (Digital Elevation Model).
Visual-SOLAR is a Geographic information system (GIS) tool being developed that uses high-resolution Light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-derived Digital Surface Models to accurately recreate the earth’s surface, including building rooftops.