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  • Look for a unit that detects a wide range of frequencies, or bands, including laser sometimes called Lidar.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Look for a unit that detects a wide range of frequencies, or bands, including laser sometimes called Lidar.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • Look for a unit that detects a wide range of frequencies, or bands, including laser sometimes called Lidar.

    How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003

  • The ultraviolet Differential Absorption Lidar, or DIAL test, showed what the people of Tonawanda had suspected for years: Tonawanda Coke wasn't releasing three to five tons of benzene into the air, as it had been reporting to regulators.

    The Center for Public Integrity: Where regulators failed, citizens took action -- testing their own air The Center for Public Integrity 2011

  • OK I understand that they are not Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) or Weta Workshop but at least they come in the first 10 best CGI companies in the world … and even if we speak about the small company "Lidar Services [us]" who work in scanning and modeling:

    Check This Out: Hancock TV Spot « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Real-World Counterparts: Lidar and Sonar Usually utilizing lasers, a Lidar system measures reflected light to find the range, dimensions and other properties of far-off objects.

    The Dark Knight: 'Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys?' 2008

  • Lidar, D. and Malcai, O. (1998), β€œIs the Geometry of Nature Fractal?”

    Chaos Bishop, Robert 2008

  • Lidar is quickly being recognized by the aviation community as a proven technology that significantly enhances the ability to detect and alert air traffic controllers to such meteorological events as wind shear, dry microbursts, gust fronts, turbulence and crosswinds.

    Wind Detection Technology Improves Airport Safety | Impact Lab 2007

  • Lidar operates by projecting short laser pulses of light from a low-flying aircraft and measuring the time it takes for the light to bounce back from the surface.

    Mapping Flood Risk 2007

  • Lidar is the only technology to produce elevation data that are accurate within one to two feet in most terrain, including the bare-earth terrain beneath vegetation, and that meet FEMA's elevation accuracy requirements.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

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