How to Use lidar in a Sentence

lidar

noun
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  • But even the best lidar works a bit like the game Battleship.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The InnovizOne is a solid state lidar that mounts in the car grill.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
  • And this is the corresponding lidar frame for the same scene.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The problems Intel does have can’t be solved by putting lidar on a chip.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The team has two customized trucks equipped with Doppler radar and one truck equipped with Doppler lidar.
    — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The roads have fog, rain and lots of bugs that can interfere with the system’s sensors and lidar.
    — Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Add a front-facing lidar and imaging radars and nine car models to be launched in 2026.
    — Tom Krisher, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
  • How—in the age of sonar and lidar and Google Maps and Peggy—can the life of an enormous rare creature remain a mystery?
    — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Had lidar been around then, that work would likely have been much quicker.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
  • The lidar then creates a map of the surrounding terrain.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The head is hollow, and the face is transparent, and that circle hanging down from the underside of the head is the lidar puck.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
  • Miller quit his job at Uber in March 2018 and went on to lidar startup Luminar.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2018
  • On the back is a 12-megapixel camera, lidar scanner, and a new adaptive True Tone flash.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 7 May 2024
  • Other companies use those too, but add lidar to the mix.
    — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2017
  • The planes that shot lidar pulses at pieces of the Guatemalan jungle did so in a matter of days, Garrison said.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2018
  • But there are some details in the lidar data that the human ear could never discern.
    — Daniel A. Gross, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
  • The lasers are a part of a radar technology called lidar, which Levandowski had been working on while at Google.
    — Alyssa Newcomb /, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Here are some of the most innovative lidar products and ideas.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Over time, the size of the full component will become much smaller, much like lidar sensors.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The lidar system is mounted front-and-center on the roof, directly above the windshield.
    — Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Ouster makes spinning lidar that looks a lot like Velodyne's high-end sensors.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2020
  • To put it in perspective, a friend of mine built a lidar system for aerosol measurements.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Waymo has brought that cost down by 90 percent and has developed its own short-range and long-range lidar.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Orange County Register, 9 Jan. 2017
  • In some ways, the railroads should be able to adapt or borrow from many of the camera, radar, and lidar technologies used in self-driving cars and trucks.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 29 July 2019
  • But the new lidar data revealed a whole landscape of urban centers, farms, roads and canals.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But to install the lidar on the Nova, Andrew needed to shorten its cable.
    — Elliott Ackerman, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Five spinning Lidar cylinders on top of the car use lasers to make a three-dimensional map of the area as the vehicle is driving.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2017
  • Luminar has emerged as one of the more ambitious players in the still yet to be proven lidar industry.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Deputies said other technology had been used in the search, including sonar and lidar.
    — Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 28 June 2024
  • The front camera and lidar scanner will also stay operational if the module is replaced.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024

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