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		<title>Lidar vs. Cameras: Inside the Tesla and Waymo Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lidar vs. cameras is the biggest argument in self-driving technology: do cars need lidar at all? Tesla says cameras and artificial intelligence are enough. Waymo, which runs the largest driverless robotaxi service, says lidar, radar, and cameras together are needed for safe driving at scale. Falling automotive lidar cost is changing the terms of that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>$75,000 to $200: How Automotive Lidar Cost Fell</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Roe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Automotive lidar cost has fallen from about $75,000 per sensor in 2007 to roughly $200 for high-volume automotive units today. That drop is what turned lidar from a research tool on test vehicles into a part carmakers can build into mass-market models. For an overview of how the technology works, see [Automotive Lidar: A Complete [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Automotive Lidar Works: Lasers, Beam Scanning, Detectors and Range</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Roe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How automotive lidar works is simple at its core: the sensor fires laser light at the road scene and times how long it takes to bounce back. Each return becomes one point in a 3D point cloud, and a car&#8217;s computer uses millions of those points per second to detect and track vehicles, pedestrians, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>GEDI Shows Tropical Forests Don&#8217;t Follow One Climate Rule</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Ruether]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental Mapping]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tropical forests in the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia can look nearly identical from above. A new study in Nature, built on about 16 million spaceborne lidar observations, finds they respond to climate in very different ways. Congo Basin biomass tracks temperature most closely, while in Southeast Asia water availability matters most. That [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Great Salt Lake Lidar: Geo Week 2027 Keynote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What New Bathymetric Lidar Data Reveals About One of the West&#8217;s Most Threatened Lakes Geo Week announced its first 2027 keynote, A Lake in Crisis: Mapping Utah&#8217;s Great Salt Lake, a presentation and panel discussion on a large-scale Great Salt Lake lidar project using bathymetric lidar to map the lakebed, wetlands, and deeper-water environments. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rivian Lidar Cost: Now a Few Hundred Dollars</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Roe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rivian will put lidar on its R2 SUV for employees before the end of 2026, with customer vehicles following in 2027. The company also says the sensor now costs it only &#8220;a few hundred dollars,&#8221; a sharp drop from what automotive lidar cost just a few years ago. Rivian VP of Investor Relations Chip Newcom [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lidar Uncovers Lost WWII Battlefield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Clark]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lidar uncovers a lost WWII battlefield on New Georgia Island, where researchers are working to locate 23 missing American servicemen. A research team led by Binghamton University anthropology professor Carl Lipo and geography professor Thomas Pingel deployed drone-mounted lidar to map an undisturbed World War II battlefield on New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>NV5 Geo Sessions: Data Into Action</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Roe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NV5 Geo Sessions 2026 is built around a question a lot of geospatial teams are quietly stuck on: how do you turn all this data into something you actually act on? NV5 has announced Geo Sessions 2026, a virtual thought-leadership event focused on turning geospatial data into operational decisions rather than simply collecting more of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Emesent GX1 SLAM Takes On the Hardest Test</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Ruether]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Six minutes, one pole-mounted scanner, and a stretch of Montana with almost nothing to lock onto. A 250 meter stretch of road outside Bozeman, Montana is not the kind of site that makes for a dramatic point cloud. Flat, straight, a couple of buildings at either end, and almost nothing in between. Which is exactly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Building Digital Twins Above and Below Ground: A Two-Part Reality Capture Webinar Series</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Roe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Accurate information about existing conditions is essential to successful design, construction, and asset management—but creating that complete picture requires understanding both what is visible above ground and what lies beneath it. In an upcoming two-part webinar series from DGT Associates and FARO Insight, attendees will see how modern reality capture and geospatial technologies can be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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