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Abdullah al Faruque, associate professor in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology, is being honored with the 2022 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s highest honor for tenured faculty. ....
E-Mail Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are exploring ways to use drones and artificial intelligence to help farmers and other users assess how well fields of crops are growing. The National Science Foundation awarded Guoyu Lu, an assistant professor in RIT s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, more than $583,000 to spearhead the project. The researchers are aiming to create a cost-effective and accurate 3D reconstruction sensing system that can be equipped on unmanned aerial systems. Current systems make use of heavy and expensive 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems, which require big and expensive drones to fly. But by making use of lighter, less expensive 2D LiDAR systems and developing deep neural networks, the researchers hope to bring the cost from about $500,000 for current systems to just a few thousand dollars. ....
RIT Imaging scientist receives funding from National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and NASA to improve how LiDAR can be used to study forests 12/15/2020 3 Minutes Read Imaging scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have several new projects in the works to improve the way waveform LiDAR can be used to study forests. Professor Jan van Aardt from the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science has received a $194,000 award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and a $197,000 award from NASA for two different but interrelated remote-sensing projects. RIT will partner with researchers at Battelle on the NGA grant, which will focus on using waveform LiDAR which stands for “light detection and ranging” to create clearer 3D sub-canopy maps of forests. Van Aardt said that LiDAR currently does a good job of outlining the top portion of forests, but by using a more complex form of LiDAR, it can reveal much more d ....
E-Mail Imaging scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have several new projects in the works to improve the way waveform LiDAR can be used to study forests. Professor Jan van Aardt from the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science received a $194,000 award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and a $197,000 award from NASA for two different but interrelated remote-sensing projects. RIT will partner with researchers at Battelle on the NGA grant, which will focus on using waveform LiDAR which stands for light detection and ranging to create clearer 3D sub-canopy maps of forests. Van Aardt said that LiDAR currently does a good job of outlining the top portion of forests, but by using a more complex form of LiDAR, it can reveal much more detail about what lies beneath the forest canopy s surface. ....