Described as a "formula one racing car for the sky," the Jetson One is an electric-powered VTOL sky toy that can hover, bank, ...

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)—first developed by the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1961—is a technology you may not think about often, but many scientists and engineers find impossible to ...

Lasers shot from an aircraft have revealed the remains of a 600-year-old Zapotec city in southern Mexico, a new study finds.

Also, the near-range signals can saturate when the aircraft is flying through dense clouds. In this situation, the clouds cannot be fully penetrated by the lidar, and the signals can be dramatically ...

Above: An aircraft-mounted, two-axis scanner for a Doppler lidar to study complex wind patterns found around wildfires in complex terrain or near the coast. Top Image: Team members from left to right: ...

A NASA F/A-18 research aircraft flies above California near NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, ...

New Zealand has been extensively mapped in 3D, offering a powerful tool for economic planning, land management, and ...