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Re:Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle by zo1 on Saturday February 03, 2018 @02:57AM (#16296719)
LIDAR data requires precise location-information of the scanning-device, otherwise the data you collect is at best useless, and at-most wildly skewed. This is because all the points are in-reference to the location of the device. A faster traveling vehicle inherently means less-accurate location measurements.
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Re:Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle by nitrogen on Saturday February 03, 2018 @04:35PM (#16299809)
Can SLAM be applied in this case?
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Re:Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle by zo1 on Sunday February 04, 2018 @04:28AM (#16302043)
It definitely can, though accuracy would always be a big concern.

IIRC, the Google self-driving car used LIDAR. Though their localization algorithms included many sensors, with the LIDAR data was just one of them.

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