Optics Valley Technical Series: Marine LIDAR Technologies and Applications

Marine LIDAR is a subset of the rapidly expanding global market for commercial time of flight (TOF) 3D imaging devices.  The most prominent exemplar is the navigation LIDAR used for autonomous vehicles that are driving the ADAS market.  However, LIDAR is not new — it has been around for more than 40 years as a remote sensing tool.  Only in the past 10 years has it become a significant commercial device, owing to the growth of robotics and vehicle automation.  So it is timely to look at LIDAR technology and consider its utility for our companies and products.

The Sensor Group has been providing makers of Marine LIDAR systems with imaging devices for over 10 years and continues to innovate in this space, including the development of a monolithic device. Dr. Griffis has been working with such LIDAR systems for over 25 years.  

This webinar will focus on the subset of the overall LIDAR market, Marine LIDAR, and discuss:

• Basics of imaging in water in terms of physics and associated challenges
• Geometries and technologies that are useful for producing LIDAR data in water
• Airborne Marine LIDAR systems in use today and data produced by those systems

About Our Presenter:

Andrew Griffis Ph.D. has been growing businesses and developing sensing products for over 20 years. Products include microwave imaging for geoscience, non-contact thermographic devices for industrial IoT, airborne and underwater LIDAR systems, infrared 2D/3D imaging and monolithic flash LIDAR devices. He holds patents in thermographic condition-based maintenance, LIDAR, IR imaging/sensing, medical acoustics and mobile surveillance. Andy founded The Sensor Group in 2009 to serve production airborne LIDAR opportunities for the US Navy.

The Sensor Group has been delivering imaging technology for more than a decade to multiple production programs serving OEM customers. Our development team has access to electro-optical technologies and technologists in the Tucson, Arizona area that allow us to provide the utmost support and testing for your product. We have additional supply chain and manufacturing support facilities in Arizona, California and Georgia.		Optics Valley, a committee of the Arizona Technology Council, is one of the leading clusters for optics, photonics and astronomy in the world. Optics Valley’s mission is to catalyze, convene and connect optics, photonics, astronomy and the supporting business interests throughout Arizona.