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> Do you have any evidence supporting the claim that CCP has high resolution LiDAR point cloud maps of US cities? I never claimed that - you aren't engaging wi
by fc417fc802 2mo ago
> Do you have any evidence supporting the claim that CCP has high resolution LiDAR point cloud maps of US cities?
I never claimed that - you aren't engaging with what I actually wrote.
I questioned the usefulness of such data in the general case. I also pointed out that in the rare cases where such data for a small area would prove useful it would be trivial to collect (on account of being a small area).
Just what sort of resolution do you believe is necessary or useful for drone warfare or other military uses? What do you have in mind here? Regardless, if I (a civilian) can afford the equipment and plane ticket to collect a LiDAR point cloud of a monument approximately anywhere in the world then any well funded actor can also send a "tourist" to do the same.
For that matter I don't think you even need LiDAR. Photogrammetry techniques can achieve arbitrarily high spatial resolution proportional to that of the input data. LiDAR just has some advantages if you're considering deploying on a wide scale or for certain realtime or power constrained tasks. Generally none of that applies to state actors.