This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Satellite images let us see Earth from above. But a technology closer to Earth can give us a much more detailed look.
A new compact and lightweight single-photon airborne lidar system could make single-photon lidar practical for air and space applications such as 3D terrain mapping.
Mingjia Shangguan and Haiyun Xia from the University of Science and Technology of China were part of a research team who developed a new Doppler LIDAR system for accurately measuring the wind.
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