Dragon has been using a laser -
based LIDAR system to send laser pulses toward the space station and measure its distance by calculating how long the pulses take to reflect back.
Not exact matches
Most companies currently working on self - driving technology are also working with vision -
based systems, but most of them are also complementing their cameras with
lidar sensors — something Tesla believes is not necessary.
Quanergy
Systems is currently developing the world's leading
LiDAR by using data to disrupt and revolutionize digital navigation and location
based services.
Potential applications comprise real - time 3D cameras
based on highly precise and compact
LIDAR systems.
So, instead of measuring the tops of trees, these
lidar -
based systems will measure the tops of the clouds which reflect the laser pulse.
Using
lidar, a light -
based system like radar, the instrument can detect organic particles that indicate living organisms, and even determine how recently that life may have been present.
A Strobe
Lidar system is
based on the principle of coherent communication, where «we send light out to a target, it gets reflected back and then it mixes it with the same source that created the light that was sent out.
The Delphi Audi relied on six long - range radars, four short - range radars, three vision -
based cameras, six
lidars (laser -
based radar
systems), a localization
system, intelligent software algorithms, and a full suite of active safety
systems — a kitchen sink's worth of tech that underscores how much extra equipment automated cars will likely need.
As for the «
LiDAR -
based mapping data», this scan of limited - access highways in the U.S. and Canada is paired with an improved GPS
system, real - time cameras, and sensors to determine whether or not the
system can come on, along with keeping the vehicle on the road.
Described as «the industry's first true hands - free driving technology for the highway,» (Tesla would argue otherwise) Super Cruise combines the driver assistance features currently on the CT6, along with a driver attention
system and
LiDAR -
based mapping data.
The statistical relationship derived between ground -
based measurements of forest biomass density and co-located Geoscience Laser Altimeter
System (GLAS)
LiDAR waveform metrics as described by Baccini et al. (2012) were used to estimate the biomass density of more than 40,000 GLAS footprints throughout the tropics.