Laser altimeter sensor assists conservation groups to improve the scaling accuracy of photographs. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become an important tool for conservation practitioners and have ...

First such laser-based system designed for inter-planetary flight built in Europe is part of ESA's BepiColombo mission to map the planet in 3D. How high? The BepiColombo laser alimeter will tell us.

NASA’s ‘ICESat-2’ satellite, featuring a single-instrument laser altimeter payload, has launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base and is said to be “healthy” on arrival in orbit, with its ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of India’s Vikram lander, which successfully touched down on the Moon’s surface in August. The LRO’s laser altimeter ...

Mercury-bound: the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter. (Courtesy: University of Bern/Ramon Lehmann) The laser altimeter for Europe’s first mission to Mercury has been fitted to the Mercury Planetary Orbiter ...

Since 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been taking high-resolution pictures of the lunar surface. This data, along with the information from a laser altimeter mapping instrument has ...

A global view of how Mars changes with the seasons has been provided by extremely precise observations from two investigations on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft. Elevation and gravity ...

A collection of Japanese organisations are to jointly conduct research to enhance the precision of three-dimensional mapping using laser altimeters (LIDAR) mounted on a satellite or other spacecraft.

Wang Jianyu, head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, announced on Monday that after two years' research, his institute has finished developing a laser ...