Definitions for LIDAR
ˈlaɪ dɑrli·dar

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1. lidarnoun

   a measuring system that detects and locates objects on the same principle as radar but uses light from a laser; a potential technology for detecting air turbulence that can affect aircraft

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1. lidarnoun

   The optical analogue of radar which uses intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere.

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1. Lidar

   Lidar (, also LIDAR, or LiDAR; sometimes LADAR) is an acronym of "light detection and ranging" or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging". It is a method for determining ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the receiver. It is sometimes called 3-D laser scanning, a special combination of 3-D scanning and laser scanning. LIDAR has terrestrial, airborne, and mobile applications.Lidar is commonly used to make high-resolution maps, with applications in surveying, geodesy, geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, atmospheric physics, laser guidance, airborne laser swath mapping (ALSM), and laser altimetry. It is used to make digital 3-D representations of areas on the Earth's surface and ocean bottom of the intertidal and near coastal zone by varying the wavelength of light. It has also been increasingly used in control and navigation for autonomous cars and for the helicopter Ingenuity on its record-setting flights over the terrain of Mars.

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1. lidar

   LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing methodology that uses pulsed laser to measure distances to the Earth. These light pulses—combined with other data recorded by the airborne system— generate precise, three-dimensional information about the shape of the Earth and its surface characteristics. It is commonly used in topographical mapping, forestry, environment, geology, seismology, city planning, and self-driving vehicle technology.

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1. Lidar

   Lidar is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser and analyzing the reflected light. The term lidar comes from combining the words light and radar. Lidar is popularly known as a technology used to make high resolution maps, geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, remote sensing, atmospheric physics, airborne laser swath mapping, laser altimetry, and contour mapping.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of LIDAR in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of LIDAR in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of LIDAR in a Sentence

1. Tom Painter:

   The scanning LIDAR is a fancy laser pointer, essentially, that sprays out laser pulses – about 500,000 pulses per second – flying along at 23,000 feet, and measures how long it takes for the laser pulse to go out, hit the surface and come back, and we can use that information to then know the surface of the snow. Every square foot of mountain snow is touched by our lasers.

2. Marcello Canuto:

   Imagine you’re in Poughkeepsie, New Jersey, and that’s all you can see, but you might catch this thing that we call the turnpike, right, but everything else is covered in jungle … you’ll have no idea that this turnpike might connect New York with Philadelphia, liDAR is telling us everything that we found archaeologically over the last 100 years, here and there, is found everywhere … LIDAR lets us connect all the dots.

3. Karim Sadr:

   LiDAR cannot show everything and many of the parts of the city need to investigated on the ground from up close, eventually we will want to excavate some parts of the site and since the deposits are not generally deep, not a lot of earth has to be moved.

4. Tetsuya Iijima:

   At the moment, lidar lacks the capabilities to exceed the capabilities of the latest technology in radar and cameras, it would be fantastic if lidar technology was at the level that we could use it in our systems, but it's not. There's an imbalance between its cost and its capabilities.

5. Charles Matz:

   [Lidar] technology hasn't quite developed where it can accumulate this information quickly because the data sets are very dense. We're talking gigabytes and gigabytes of information.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=LIDAR
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lidar
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=LIDAR
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
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