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Lidar Mapping Revolutionizes Archaeology
ORLANDO, Fla., May 17, 2010 — Using lasers and sensors aboard a Cessna 337 aircraft, researchers from the University of Central Florida have collected 25 years worth of data in four days about ancient Maya civilizations. The NASA-funded research project used Lidar (Light...
NKT Photonics, Fianium Settle Suit
BIRKERØD, Denmark, & SOUTHAMPTON, England, May 7, 2010 — Specialty fibers and fiber lasers maker NKT Photonics A/S of Denmark and England-based ultrafast fiber lasers manufacturer Fianium have settled their 15-month UK patent dispute, the companies announced in separate statements. NKT Photonics filed...
NSF-Supported Center Moves to Houston
HOUSTON, April 16, 2010 — The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), supported by the National Science Foundation, has relocated operations to the University of Houston (UH) from the University of Florida. Researchers with the National Center for Airborne Laser...
Ultrafast Optical Communications
DAVIS, Calif., March 23, 2010 — A new device could make it much faster to convert pulses of light into electronic signals and back again. The technology, invented by engineers at the University of California – Davis, could be applied to ultrafast, high-capacity communications,...
ESA Offers Contract
Feb 28, 2010 — The European Space Agency has offered Midaz Lasers Ltd. €150,000 for the development of an engineered version of the diode-pumped Alexandrite laser. The performance benefits of the Alexandrite laser include higher wall-plug efficiency and the...
Putting Imaging in the Picture
Feb 28, 2010 — It is now more than 180 years since the first image was captured by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce from an upstairs window on his estate in France using pewter plates and a camera obscura...
JMAR Delivers UV Laser to NASA
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 9, 2010 – JMAR LLC, laser-based product solutions designer specializing in microbiological detection of organisms in water, environmental gas emissions and explosives detection, announced it has developed a dual wavelength UV Dial transmitter for atmospheric...
Lidar Images Haiti Disaster
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 26, 2010 – In the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that struck Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) are sweeping the leveled city with h...
Outlook positive for remote sensing
WELLESLEY, Mass. – The global value of remote sensing products is expected to reach $11 billion by 2014, up from an estimated $8.3 billion in 2009, with a compound annual growth rate of 6 percent, ac...
‘Watching the Detectors ...’
Nov 10, 2009 — Demand for infrared detectors is growing in a variety of industries, especially in military, medical and environmental monitoring applications. In this article, Photonics Spectra News Editor Gary Boas looks at how two recent developments in infrared...
For Lidar, Many Happy Returns
Nov 1, 2009 — For light detection and ranging (lidar) scanners, the returns are in – and they’re good. Innovations have made lidar scanners, which emit laser pulses and capture the returning light to determine distance to an object or characteristics of air,...
NKT Photonics Opens US Unit
BIRKERØD, Denmark, Sept. 11, 2009 – NKT Photonics A/S of Denmark said it opened a subsidiary, NKT Photonics Inc., in Morganville, N.J., to serve its growing North American market.
Nanometer Precision Lidar
GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 26, 20009 – The National Institute of Standards and Technology combined two different distance measurement approaches with the superaccuracy of an optical frequency comb to build a laser ranging system that may offer peerless precision in remote measurements.
T. rex or T. anorex?
Apr 1, 2009 — The skeletal remains of dinosaurs capture the imaginations of young and old alike. We gaze on these creatures, so different and yet so similar to the animals we are used to, and imagine what they would have looked like in the flesh. Artists have...
T. rex or T. anorex?
MANCHESTER, UK, Feb. 20, 2009 – Scientists are using laser imaging and three-dimensional computer modeling to investigate how fat – or fit – Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) and his fellow dinosaurs were. Karl Bates and his colleagues in the paleontology and biomechanics research...
Lasers Map Health of Habitats
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., Feb. 13, 2009 – Restoring habitat for spawning species of fish, such as Atlantic salmon, starts with a geological inventory of suitable rivers and streams, and the watershed systems that support them. But the high-tech mapping tools available to geologists and...
Seeing the Sky in 3-D
PAYERNE, Switzerland, Aug. 29, 2008 – Meteorologists in western Switzerland will now use light to detect temperature and humidity in the atmosphere. Designed by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and funded by the Swiss National Science Foudnation, the new Lidar...
Grad Students Receive NASA Fellowships
Jun 16, 2008 — Montana State University (MSU) electrical engineering graduate students David Hoffman and Amin Nehrir have each received a $30,000 fellowship through NASA's Graduate Student Researchers Program, giving them the opportunity to work with some of...
Lasers to Map Mayan Ruins
ORLANDO, Fla., May 23, 2008 -- Archaeology -- often slow-paced, precise work unless your name is Indiana Jones -- is going high tech, with lasers set to unlock the secrets of the Maya civilization hidden by dense forest canopy. A University of Central Florida (UCF) study under...
An ABL That Maps Ecosystems
HONOLULU, May 14, 2007 -- An airborne laser and hyperspectral remote-sensing platform is reinventing the science behind natural resource management decisions and is the most significant new tool since the advent of aerial photography a century ago, said Allan Smith, interim...
Lidar Elevation Mapping Requested for FEMA
Mar 1, 2007 — A National Research Council report requested by Congress says that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must have updated, high-resolution maps of the nation’s floodplains to help determine high-risk areas where residents should be...
Laser Imaging Sensor Assists Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Hunt
COLLEGE PARK & GREEN BELT, Md., Aug. 8, 2006 -- Using a laser imaging sensor capable of providing a detailed measurement of the structure of dense forests, researchers hope to prove once and for all that the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct. A team from the University of Maryland and...
Compact Nd:YAG Laser Developed for Airborne, Space Applications
Aug 1, 2006 — Compact, robust, efficient nanosecond sources are essential in many emerging airborne and spacecraft applications, including lidar, altimetry and remote spectroscopy, where high voltages and bulky heat exchangers are not practical. Recently, a...
nmLaser Products Moves to New Facility
Apr 20, 2006 — nmLaser Products Inc., a manufacturer of high irradiance laser shutters, announced today that the company has moved to its new facility at 337 Piercy Rd. in San Jose's Evergreen Technology Park, a few miles from their original location in Sunnyvale,...
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