LIDAR Magazine Podcast
Episodes
#29 - Kevin Andrews
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Andrews is Director, Land Systems at Trimble Applanix in Toronto. He's been with the company for 26 years. In this episode, Kevin explains how ...
#28 - Grayson Omans
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Phoenix LiDAR Systems was founded in 2013 and Grayson Omans is co-founder and CEO. In 2020, the company relocated from the Palms area of Los Angeles ...
#27 - Alex Brihac
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Brihac is Vice President, Head of Strategy and M&A at Hexagon Geosystems. He explains how his interest in engineering was imbued by his Romanian...
#26 - Raul Bravo
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Austin catches up with Raul Bravo, a prolific inventor holding more than 70 international patent families. As president and founder...
#25 - Alex Baikovitz
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Mach9's co-founder and CEO, Alex Baikovitz, talks enthusiastically about the company's mission to improve geospatial workflows for ge...
#24 - Florent Poux
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Florent Poux is an award-winning researcher and adjunct professor in 3D Data Science at the University of Liège. Based in Toulouse, France, Flore...
#23 - Helen Fricker
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Helen Fricker is a Professor of Geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, one of the world's most important centers...
#22 - Angus Pacala
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Angus Pacala is CEO and co-founder of Ouster, a major lidar supplier based in San Francisco. The company made headlines in 2023 when it merged with a...
#21 - John Adler
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. John Adler is a geographer and remote sensing professional with a diverse career in academia, government, and ecological research. He serves as t...
#20 - James Rush
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Stewart speaks with James Rush, Lidar Subject Matter Expert, Allen & Company, about his employer and his personal journey into lidar...
#19 - Ralph Dubayah
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ralph Dubayah is a Distinguished Professor of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the Principal Investigator ...
#18 - Josh Novac
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Novac, Associate Vice President, and Program Manager in the Geospatial, Mapping, and Survey department at Dewberry, talks about how he came to en...
#17 - Philippe Simard
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Philippe Simard is CEO of SimActive, the Montreal-based supplier of photogrammetric software, which he founded in 2003 with his brother, Louis, who i...
#16 - Steven Woolven
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Steven Woolven, president of Trimble Applanix, manufacturer of GNSS-aided inertial technologies for mobile mapping and positio...
#15 - Felix Reinshagen
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NavVis unveiled its new MLX handheld laser scanner for reality capture at INTERGEO in September 2024. The MLX complements the VLX2 and VLX3 wearable s...
#14 - Mike Zoeller and Adam Mosbrucker
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Zoeller and Adam Mosbrucker play key roles within the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Volcano Hazards Program. Both Mike and Adam rely hea...
#13 - Tristan Allouis
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The substantial achievements of UAV-lidar integrators have featured frequently in LIDAR Magazine's articles and posted press releases. Dr. Tristan A...
#12 - Clint Graumann
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us have marveled at NASA's spaceborne lidar systems, ICESat-2 and GEDI. The technical challenges of detecting returning photons and generating...
#11 - Katreen Wikstrom-Jones and Jill Nicolazzo
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Katreen Wikstrom-Jones and Jill Nicolazzo work at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources: Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (DGGS). W...
#10 - Austin Madson
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we introduce Austin Madson, associate editor of LIDAR Magazine and co-host of the podcast. An Earth scientist by trade, Austin has r...
#9 - Matt LaLuzerne and Ravi Soneja
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
McKim & Creed is an engineering and surveying firm with 24 offices in the southeastern US. In this episode, Matt LaLuzerne, National Director of BD & ...
#8 - Chris Crosby
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Austin Madson interviews Chris Crosby, the co-principal investigator and director of operations and strategy for the OpenTopograp...
#7 - Scott Simmons
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is perhaps the best-known standards body in the lidar world. In this episode, Chief Standards Officer Scott Simm...
#6 - Ron Roth
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Roth, Product Manager Airborne Topographic Lidar, Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon talks about his life in lidar since the mid-1990s and about th...
#5 - Ron Chapple
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Chapple has devoted his amazing career to flying helicopters, first for cinematography, but then to acquire imagery and lidar for geospatial purpo...
#4 - Brad Barker and Derek Wheeler
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation commissioned Surdex Corporation to fly high-density lidar over the 5000-acre Monticello estate in Charlotte...
#3 - Vivien Hériard-Dubreuil
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vivien Hériard-Dubreuil, co-founder and CEO of mdGroup, discusses the evolution of drone surveying at Microdrones, their subsequent acquisition of Ge...
#2 - Jason C. Fries
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jason C. Fries is a forensic scientist and founder of 3D Forensic, Inc. Over the last 25+ years, Jason has been a been a pioneer in developing modern ...
#1 - Volkan Akbay and Rick Householder
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Stewart Walker, Managing Editor of LIDAR Magazine, interviews Volkan Akbar and Rick Householder of Woolpert to discuss how airbor...