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Advances in LiDAR Technology: Innovations, Applications, and Integration

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Visual perception is one of the fundamental aspects of enhancing our understanding of the world around us. Recent technological advances, spearheaded by Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR), a precision distance sensing technology that measures the time the reflected light takes to return, has become the cornerstone of many emerging fields. Its application potential is continuously being harnessed in diverse fields, such as environmental monitoring, terrain analysis, agriculture, developing infrastructure, industry, and enabling autonomous navigation.

Meeting the ever-growing demand to enhance LiDAR for diverse applications presents a continuous challenge for researchers across multiple fronts. Ongoing research endeavors focus on refining LiDAR technology for various targeted applications, with a key emphasis on improving range, resolution, real-time execution, power efficiency, sensor development, AI integration, miniaturization, and exploiting quantum enhancements.

In this collection at Nature Communications, Communications Engineering and Scientific Reports we aim to bring together the latest developments in LiDAR technology targeting diverse applications crossing multidisciplinary areas.

Fixed-wing drone using LiDAR technology to generate 3D GIS topographic scans and maps of alpine snowy mountain landscape. UAS scanning, flying above and over the landscape with snow and ice

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This Collection has not been supported by sponsorship.