Crossword clues for lidar
Wiktionary
n. The optical analogue of radar which uses intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere.
WordNet
n. a measuring system that detects and locates objects on the same principle as radar but uses light from a laser; a potential technology for detecting air turbulence that can affect aircraft
Wikipedia
Lidar (also written LIDAR, LiDAR or LADAR) is a surveying technology that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser light. Lidar is sometimes considered an acronym of Light Detection And Ranging, (sometimes Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging) but was originally created as a portmanteau of " light" and " radar". Lidar is popularly used as a technology to make high-resolution maps, with applications in geodesy, geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, atmospheric physics, airborne laser swath mapping (ALSM) and laser altimetry. What is known as Lidar is sometimes simply referred to as laser scanning or 3D scanning, with terrestrial, airborne and mobile applications.
Usage examples of "lidar".
The practical application of lidar is a relatively recent development enabled by advances in laser, power management, and data processing technologies.
Past a sprinkle of asteroids in the foreground of his synthetic-aperture lidar screen, beyond a red crescent that ought to be Mars, was the blue-green dot of Earth.
And lidar returns, any test pilot knew, were as trustworthy as radar returns.
Better rephrase that, since radar and lidar could spoof you if you let them, and South was fresh from a jump through a spongelike space whose prolonged effects on human beings were part of what this test flight was testing.
South pulled up a standard return template and superimposed it on the realtime lidar return.
With it, he banished the synthetic aperture lidar and replaced it with a real-time forward view.
South said, and asked Birdy for infrared and every other damn thing she had: electro-optical, lidar, anything.
If you stared carefully into the fog and focused on a point inches in front of your nose, you could see it sparkling, like so many microscopic searchlights, as the immunocules swept space with lidar beams.
Victorian immune system, and of these, most were immunocules whose job was to drift around the dirty littoral of New Chusan using lidar to home in on any other mites that might disobey protocol.
When they put two of these devices in close proximity, they locked onto one another using lidar and embraced, exchanging data and performing some sort of computation that threw off waste heat.
They were barely three million kilometers distant, and their icons radiated the vicious, strobing rays of radar and lidar while a warning signal warbled.
During the final phase, Percival will point its active science instruments, such as the lidar, at Mars.
Currently they were showing views from remote pickups on Monte Sano Mountain, downtown Huntsville, the airfield and Weeden Mountain, which directly overlooked the arsenal, as well as lidar data from the surrounding area.
Sun was only another star, but bright enough to light the signal dishes and the telescopes and the lidar search gear standing in the vacuum outside.
Jomo was letting him stand regular shifts on the engines now, and he had learned to run the lidar gear.