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lidar

remote detection instrumentation
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Summary

lidar ranks in the top 0.72% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,509 views/month, #557 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Hughes Aircraft Company[2]
  • Subclass of: optical instrument[3]
  • Has use: surveying[4], remote sensing[5]
  • Commons category: LIDAR[6]
  • Said to be the same as: laser survey[7]
  • Has part(s): pulsed laser[8]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1961[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lidar[10]
  • Commons gallery: Lidar[11]
  • Described at URL: https://www.fe-lexikon.info/lexikon/lidar[12]
  • Native label: Light Detection And Ranging[13]
  • Short name: lidar[14]
  • Different from: Lidar[15]

Why It Matters

lidar has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] lidar is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Has part(s) → pulsed laser
    Has parts → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Lidar
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0217310-lidary, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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