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inertial measurement unit

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Also known as: IMU

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use with lidar

  • A lidar map of the World Trade Center site (below centre left) and vicinity after the September 11 attacks, New York City, 2001. Lidar data helped to identify the height of the rubble so that appropriate cranes could be used to remove it. The lidar data collected from flyovers provided building and utility engineers with the information they needed to locate the World Trade Center's original foundation support structures.
    In lidar

    …Positioning System (GPS) equipment and inertial measurement units (IMUs) in the late 1980s that accurate lidar data were possible.

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