This technology could advance security, monitoring, and remote sensing.
Anew LiDAR system has been developed that may see through fog and smoke to reveal hidden objects and provide highly detailed remote sensing capabilities. This technology could advance security, monitoring, and remote sensing.
This uniquely designed LiDAR system is based on “single-photon time-of-flight” technology to acquire high-resolution 3D images of objects.
Interestingly, the new system can clearly image a human face in 3D up to half a mile away.
“This type of measurement system could lead to improved security and monitoring systems that could, for example, acquire detailed depth images through smoke or fog and of cluttered scenes,” said Aongus McCarthy from Heriot-Watt University in the UK.
“It could also enable the remote identification of objects in various environments and monitoring of movement of buildings or rock faces to assess subsidence or other potential hazards,” added McCarthy, who is the study’s first author.
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