LIDAR Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:36:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Tesla’s Autopilot 2.0 Could Have LIDAR Hardware https://www.greenoptimistic.com/teslas-autopilot-2-0-lidar-hardware-20160714/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/teslas-autopilot-2-0-lidar-hardware-20160714/#respond Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:36:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60229 Yet another sighting of one of Tesla’s productions hints at cool new driving features. Model S was recently spotted with what appears to be LIDAR hardware in Palo Alto, CA near Tesla’s headquarters. From the front of the vehicle a laser detection system can be seen with the ability to provide 3D maps in real-time. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/teslas-autopilot-2-0-lidar-hardware-20160714/feed/ 0 60229 Airborne Laser Scan Shows New York Rooftops Could Generate 5,847 MW of Solar Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-york-solar-power-lidar-20110617/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-york-solar-power-lidar-20110617/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:30:45 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=19151 Special planes equipped with a special laser system called Lidar flew over New York last year and scanned all the potential rooftops out of more than one million on which solar panels could be installed to properly produce power, NYTimes reports.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-york-solar-power-lidar-20110617/feed/ 1 19151 SpiDAR: A Newly-Developed Wind Prediction System To Improve Wind Turbine Output by 15% https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spidar-wind-prediction-20101122/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spidar-wind-prediction-20101122/#respond Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:09:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11914 As they say, details make all the difference when it comes to big things. Following this principle, the huge wind turbines that you see on fields all around the world, need small adjustments and a little intelligence to act efficiently. Called SpiDAR, a newly-developed system can predict where wind is coming from and is going to be a step ahead and over currently-existing monitoring systems.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spidar-wind-prediction-20101122/feed/ 0 11914 LIDAR: Predicting The Wind By Using Smart, Laser-Equipped Wind Turbines https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lidar-predicting-the-wind-by-using-smart-laser-equipped-wind-turbines-20100106/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lidar-predicting-the-wind-by-using-smart-laser-equipped-wind-turbines-20100106/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:17:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6084 The researchers from Riso DTU completed the first test on a wind turbine with a laser-based anemometer built into the spinner to increase electricity generation.

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