"the power to deploy these technologies at scale will only be deployed to fight serious crime"
[proceeds to use dragnet to crack down on people dumping stuff in the woods]
LiDAR scans are finding hidden Roman roads and cutting crime
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#32"the power to deploy these technologies at scale will only be deployed to fight serious crime" [proceeds to use dragnet to crack down on people dumping stuff in the woods]
What's the downside to pervasively prosecuting illegal dumping?
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#33"the power to deploy these technologies at scale will only be deployed to fight serious crime" [proceeds to use dragnet to crack down on people dumping stuff in the woods]
What's the downside to pervasively prosecuting illegal dumping?
The same as the downsides to using dragnets to prevent any other petty crime.
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#34Re: LiDAR scans are finding hidden Roman roads and cutting crime
#35I really wish this technology could find its way into the hands of Ruth Shady in Peru. She was the discoverer of the Norte Chico civilization, the earliest known civilization in south america, and one of a select few civilizations worldwide that could be called a cradle of civilization (a civilization that emerged without outside influence).
And despite the significance of the discovery, there is almost no funding for continued research, and making basic discoveries of where artifacts might be located is still a major bottleneck.
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#36"the power to deploy these technologies at scale will only be deployed to fight serious crime" [proceeds to use dragnet to crack down on people dumping stuff in the woods]
Dumping stuff in the woods can be a serious crime. Sometimes you are cycling through an idyllic remote area and you find someone has dumped a lot of asbestos there right there on the trail.
Even if it’s not a seriously dangerous substance, making the landscape ugly like that is still a really shitty thing to do to your fellow citizens. I think it would be great if more dumping violations could be prosecuted.
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#37Self driving cars have lowered some LIDAR costs a factor of 20, with a promise of far more. I wonder if this can translate over into archeology and geology. Imsaw one project at SIGGRAPH using a cheap LIDAR.
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#38Anyone know where I could license/purchase hi-res LIDAR scans for use in game development?
The data from the Puget Sound LIDAR Consortium [1] is freely available, you just need to ask for an account. (Not 100% sure on licensing terms, though.)
Seattle / King County just finished a rescan in 2016/2017 and the data is stunningly good. [2] Really good consistency and density. The DLM/classification/cleanup seems excellent.
[1] http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/
[2] (private, need an account) http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/lidardata/restrict...
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#39I really wish this technology could find its way into the hands of Ruth Shady in Peru. She was the discoverer of the Norte Chico civilization, the earliest known civilization in south america, and one of a select few civilizations worldwide that could be called a cradle of civilization (a civilization that emerged without outside influence). And despite the significance of the discovery, there is almost no funding fo…
There have certainly been LIDAR surveys of archaeologically important regions in Peru, but there's a lot more of Peru to scan than the UK.
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#40Anyone know where I could license/purchase hi-res LIDAR scans for use in game development?
Google Maps is making their data available for gaming now as well[0]. [0] https://developers.google.com/maps/gaming/
While exciting, the barrier seems pretty high to even get access to some of this data. You have to contact their sales department, which probably means it has Enterprise-level pricing.