Jeffrey Yates Retires From DAT/EM
Reading Time: 3 minutesJeff Yates retired as general manager of DAT/EM Systems, Anchorage, Alaska, on June 2, 2023. This changing of the guard comes close on the heels of the retirements of two popular Florida lidar folk, which we reported recently [1]. Jeff is well known in the mapping industry, both to his customers and to many others […]
Introduction to Pointcloudmetry – LIDAR Magazine
Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction to Pointcloudmetry: Point Clouds from Laser Scanning and Photogrammetry. Mathias Lemmens. Whittles Publishing, Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland, 2023. 240 x 170 mm, xv + 349 pp, 201 color and black and white illustrations, 15 tables, index. Hardback, ISBN 978-1-84995-479-2, £95 from publisher in UK, $135 from Amazon in US. Reviewed by: Stewart Walker, Managing Editor, […]
Lidar’s Revolution of Forensic Ballistic Trajectory Analysis
Reading Time: 4 minutesTrajectory analysis is a key element to accurately reconstructing a shooting event. Most often, police investigators or forensic experts perform this analysis by reverse-engineering an incident from the resting points of bullets fired. The results of this analysis often bear high stakes in a criminal case; enough so an inaccurate analysis could imprison an innocent […]