{"id":99549,"date":"2022-08-10T13:42:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T17:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/?p=99549"},"modified":"2022-08-10T13:42:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T17:42:40","slug":"lidar-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-a-huge-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/2022\/08\/lidar-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-a-huge-update\/","title":{"rendered":"LIDAR: What it is, how it works, and a huge update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aurora-sponsored-featured-image-august2022-article1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aurora-sponsored-featured-image-august2022-article1.png 770w, https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aurora-sponsored-featured-image-august2022-article1-500x266.png 500w, https:\/\/www.solarpowerworldonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/aurora-sponsored-featured-image-august2022-article1-368x196.png 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we rely on (and take for granted) a lot of amazing technological achievements that would\u2019ve seemed like magic just a few decades ago. We can finish up a work document on our phone while traveling 500 miles per hour at 30,000 feet. And the USB-C charger you use to charge that phone? It has more computing power than the computers that helped astronauts go to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>In the solar industry, LIDAR \u2014 planes (or drones) flying over vast areas of the country, bouncing laser beams off structures and the ground to determine their heights \u2014 is one of those things, and it has become one of the critical technologies installers rely on to generate accurate designs. In this blog we\u2019re going to explain a bit more about how we use LIDAR at Aurora to help make your design process quicker and easier, and we\u2019ll also share some exciting news about our updated LIDAR data.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/aurorasolar.com\/blog\/lidar-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-a-huge-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read the full story on Aurora Solar\u2019s website.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we rely on (and take for granted) a lot of amazing technological achievements that would\u2019ve seemed like magic just a few decades ago. We can finish up a work document on our phone while traveling 500 miles per hour at 30,000 feet. And the USB-C charger you use to charge that phone? 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