Sentences with phrase «called lidar»

It was picked up by NASA scientists and researchers at Australia's Davis Station using a light detection instrument called a lidar, which captures a vertical slice of the atmosphere.

The buoys carry a bevy of advanced instruments, including devices called lidar, which is short for light detection and ranging, to measure wind speed and direction at multiple heights above the ocean.

To characterize the land surface, they used data from a remote sensing device called LiDAR, which is short for Light Detection And Ranging.

Gareth Rees and Neil Arnold of Cambridge University are using a laser measuring instrument called Lidar, flown on a Dornier 228 aircraft, to measure in pinpoint detail the topography of glaciers.

These smoke signals are actually digital elevation models generated using a technology called lidar, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging.

generated using a technology called lidar, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging.

Kane uses a remote sensing tool called LIDAR, which beams laser pulses over the landscape from a plane.

Looking for a better way to dig up these subtle depressions, a team from the University of Alberta in Edmonton went airborne with a device called LIDAR.

Alphabet is suing Uber for patent infringement over a crucial self - driving technology called lidar, which is a laser - based radar.

While Waymo wanted to bring up software trade secrets the company believed Uber took as part of this lawsuit — which is about self - driving hardware called lidar — the judge said it would add too much to this trial but ruled the company could file a separate lawsuit related to software after this ended.

By contrast, Alphabet's self - driving car division, Waymo, is building some of its own hardware, like the laser - based radars called lidar, in a bid to supply carmakers and other self - driving technology companies.

Uber was also ordered to distance Levandowski from any form of work that directly involves the self - driving technology called Lidar, the centerpiece of this whole high - stakes legal war between the two companies.

The crux of Alphabet's lawsuit against Uber rests on a claim that Levandowski stole the design for a key sensor technology called lidar before he left the company to start Otto.

Not exact matches

GM bought Cruise for about half a billion in 2016, and Cruise as a GM division acquired a California - based laser - radar (Lidar) startup, Strobe Inc. last year for an undisclosed sum, with the idea that Lidars units don't need to be what Strobe CEO Julie Schoenfeld called a «spinning Kentucky Fried Chicken» bucket atop a vehicle.

The fourth patent claim which remained, however, relates to another LiDAR design called «Fuji,» which Uber continues to use, according to a spokesman for Waymo.

«Finally, while the prototypes that we have made are very small compared to many Lidar systems, we still use what we call free - standing optics, millimeter - scale lenses and mirrors and beam - splitters and things like that.

The technology is called Light Detection and Ranging sensors, or LIDAR for short.

This proportionality is expressed by the so - called «lidar equation».

The light collected by the lidar telescope is geometrically and spectrally separated (e.g., with optical filters and beam splitters) and detected with photosensitive devices (photomultipliers, abbreviated PMTs) where it is converted to electro - photon counts, the so - called «lidar signals».