{"id":89252,"date":"2019-04-05T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-latest-wave-of-sensor-tech-could-be-a-game-changer-for-lidar-equipped-drones"},"modified":"2019-04-05T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:43:08","slug":"the-latest-wave-of-sensor-tech-could-be-a-game-changer-for-lidar-equipped-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-latest-wave-of-sensor-tech-could-be-a-game-changer-for-lidar-equipped-drones","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Wave of Sensor Tech Could be a Game Changer for LiDAR-Equipped Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-latest-wave-of-sensor-tech-could-be-a-game-changer-for-lidar-equipped-drones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The following is a guest post by talented author and self-described nerd Ryan LaDue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Latest Wave of Sensor Tech Could be a Game-Changer for LiDAR-Equipped UAVs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Avalanche photodiode sensors are semiconductors capable of converting photons into electrons with an extremely high level of precision. The technology isn\u2019t as new as you might think, but accessible units used for laser range finders (as part of LiDAR systems) have only been making their way into consumer markets in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/2019\/04\/04\/the-latest-wave-of-sensor-tech-could-be-a-game-changer-for-lidar-equipped-drones\/\">https:\/\/dronelife.com\/2019\/04\/04\/the-latest-wave-of-sensor-t...ed-drones\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a guest post by talented author and self-described nerd Ryan LaDue. The Latest Wave of Sensor Tech Could be a Game-Changer for LiDAR-Equipped UAVs Avalanche photodiode sensors are semiconductors capable of converting photons into electrons with an extremely high level of precision. The technology isn\u2019t as new as you might think, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}