Lidar is almost always discussed in relation to self-driving vehicles.
What are some other applications that stand to benefit significantly from a price reduction? Submersibles come to mind as a cost-prohibitive tech where this could help somewhat.
What are some other applications that stand to benefit significantly from a price reduction? Submersibles come to mind as a cost-prohibitive tech where this could help somewhat.
For instance, I worked on the design of a mission concept for multi-target Active Debris Removal [1], for which flash LIDAR was an important part of the GNC package, in addition to stereo visual cameras, and various other sensors. For non-cooperative targets, LIDAR is a pretty important technology, due to possible varying lighting conditions.
LIDAR has been used for close proximity GNC for the International Space Station too [2].
Compact, low-power flash LIDAR will open up a slew of applications like on-orbit satellite servicing and refuelling.
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301359099_Agora_Mis...
Archaeology finding things under the surface https://3dprint.com/140498/3d-aerial-laser-scanning-cambodia... and https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lidar-reveals-oldest-big...
surveying https://terra-drone.eu/en/drone-mapping/drone-lidar/
>The settings have a toggle to enable "LiDAR" for "assisted auto focus and subject detection for Video and Night Mode."
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/25/iphone-12-pro-max-setti...
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-lidar-data-and-where-can-i-do...
Build a mesh network of a dozen sensors and join up the results to scan entire buildings in a few hours and you'll have some very happy engineers.
Feels like there are a lot of sky high prices lidar companies and yet the failing of self driving cars so far isn't lidar....