Collaborate Disseminate
LIDAR has gained much popularity as a means for self-driving cars to survey the space around them. At their most basic, LIDAR is a surveying method that uses lasers to paints the space around the sensors and assembles the distances measured from reflected light into a digital three-dimensional representation. That’s …read more
The cave was first discovered by local farmers in 1966, but was walled off until last year for unknown reasons. Continue reading 1,000-Year-Old Pristine Mayan Artifacts Found in Sealed ‘Jaguar God’ Cave
White nose syndrome has killed an estimated 6 million bats in North America, which are an important part of our food system. Continue reading This Medicine-Misting Bat Cave ‘Air Freshener’ Could Ward Off a Deadly Disease
[adam] is a caver, meaning that he likes to explore caves and map their inner structure. This is still commonly done using traditional tools, such as notebooks (the paper ones), tape measure, compasses, and inclinometers. [adam] wanted to upgrade his equipment, but found that industrial LiDAR 3D scanners are quite expensive. His Hackaday Prize entry, the Open LIDAR, is an affordable alternative to the expensive industrial 3D scanning solutions out there.
LiDAR — Light Detection And Ranging — is the technology that senses the distance between a sensor and an object by reflectively measuring the time of flight of a …read more
The 2016 CAVES course takes astronauts 800 meters underground to prepare them for life 250 miles above the ground. Continue reading Caves on Other Planets Could Be Havens for Human Explorers
