muckles:
I think LIDAR is giving the autonomous industry one of it’s development problems, everything I’ve read says it doesn’t work so well in snow and heavy rain. Ford has announced it has a car that will work on snow covered roads, by working out where the road goes from 3d maps and information such as road signs, but this is only once the snow has stopped falling.What did the aviation industry use it for and what has replaced it?
That’s interesting stuff that, you have a good insight to what the industry is getting up to behind the scenes.
I used to work for a contractor that had different fleets for various government agencies MOD, coastguard, Environment agency plus some other bits and pieces. The EA stuff used lidar in dimensional mapping of the UK. The lidar wouldn’t work very well through foliage on trees for example. It also would trip off when you passed over cloud or heavy precipitation. I’m not sure to be honest if it’s been replaced or still used.