From LiDARNews.com... Maybe it’s because I’ve spent the last 30 years or so working as a surveyor, or because I’ve spent the last 18 years instructing people in the use of CADD and civil software, to me the biggest issue I see with the expanded use of LiDAR is not the hardware or software, but the issue of the paradigm shift for the people working with scanned data.
The power of hardware and software will continue to develop exponentially as it is driven by demand for the technology itself. People however tend to be reluctant to leave the emotional comfort of what they know. This seems to be particularly true among the civil disciplines.
Since the time of the first person to recognize that the earth was not flat, we have struggled with representing the three dimensional nature of our surroundings in two dimensions...
