Within a year or two, the U.S. military could field a portable, laser backpack device that will provide a three-dimensional (3-D) map of buildings. The reconnoitering pack could be used by ...

Garmin (NYSE: GRMN) is taking laser rangefinding capabilities to new horizons with the Xero® L60i. This GNSS-enabled rangefinding monocular combines premium optics with advanced technology and ...

It's Oregon like you've never seen it -- at least on a map. Using a laser-based terrain mapping system, the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries has produced giant color images of the ...

A unique map can change the way you view the world. The Australian company Pangea Maps offers a particularly clever vantage point: topographic maps of regions of the ocean floor, laser-cut out of wood ...

A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote ...

Many painstaking hours are spent recording measurements and analytical data such as the location of evidence and the force of impact in an accident, which can prove detrimental to a case if even ...

A Counterpoint blog post today questions whether the planned ‘massive overhaul’ of Apple Maps is too little, too late. This brings me to my key point — that map making, map data collection and keeping ...