LIDAR in the Driver's Seat
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 12 Story 7 - 10/3/2011

The sensor

The system at the core of LIDAR technology is a sensor called the HDL-64E, that uses 64 spinning lasers and accumulates 1.3 million points per second in order to reconstruct a virtual map of its surroundings. Picture courtesy: Velodyne Inc.
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The sensor. The system at the core of LIDAR technology is a sensor called the HDL-64E, that uses 64 spinning lasers and accumulates 1.3 million points per second in order to reconstruct a virtual map of its surroundings.