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		zo1 on Feb 3, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala... LIDAR data requires precise location-information of the scanning-device, otherwise the data you collect is at best useless, and at-most wildly skewed. This is because all the points are in-reference to the location of the device. A faster traveling vehicle inherently means less-accurate location measurements.

nitrogen on Feb 3, 2018 [–]

Can SLAM be applied in this case?

zo1 on Feb 4, 2018 | [–]

It definitely can, though accuracy would always be a big concern.

IIRC, the Google self-driving car used LIDAR. Though their localization algorithms included many sensors, with the LIDAR data was just one of them.

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