LIDAR

  

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LIDAR

"LIDAR" is a common misspelling or typo for: Leda, Liar, Lieder, Liter.


Specialty Definition: LIDAR

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Aerospace

Acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging. Like RADAR, except lidar uses light (laser) instead of radio waves. (references)

Science

Acronym for 'Light Detection and Ranging,' a technique for performing accurate remote measurements of atmospheric trace gas concentration over ranges of several meters to tens of kilometers. This is done by probing the absorption lines of the gases with narrow spectral laser radiation using the differential absorption lidar technique. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: LIDAR

Specialty definitions using "LIDAR": Vegetation Canopy Lidar. (references)
Non-English Usage: "LIDAR" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (coping, fight, get along, labor, labour, struggle, toil).

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Commercial Usage: LIDAR

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Books

  • O Medico E Seus Direitos: Como Lidar Com Situacoes De Impasse No Dia-A-Dia (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: LIDAR

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Giant sandwaves as seen from NOAA helicopter during SHOALS Lidar. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Niagara Falls as seen during Shoals Lidar survey of Niagara River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Chicago as seen during Lake Michigan SHOALS Lidar survey. Credit: America's Coastlines.

World Trade Center at New York during transit between SHOALS Lidar survey sites. Credit: America's Coastlines.

LIDAR measurement emanating from Atmospheric Research Observatory (ARO) Building . This instrument is used to measure stratospheric clouds. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Bell 212 helicopter equipped with SHOALS Lidar sounding system off Cancun, Mexico. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

A green laser water penetration system devised by Sylvania Electronic Systems in the late 1970's. Although advertised for fisheries use, this technology has evolved into LIDAR, a system for measuring shallow-water bathymetry and also for into a rapid terrain mapping technique. In: Farooq Hussain, 1970, "Living Underwater, " p. 87. Library Call Number GC65 H8 1970b. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: LIDAR

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Trade

Indonesia

Recent examples of TDA activity include $302,400 for a Gas Development/Procurement Plan, $249,000 for a demonstration of LIDAR Remote Imagining Technology, and $483,500 for a Wastewater Treatment Plant feasibility study on the island of Batam. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LIDAR

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lidar

116

airborne lidar mapping

23

laser leica lidar

22

1 airborne lidar mapping

22

police lidar

3

lidar system

3

earthdata lidar

2

airborne lidar

2

lidar radar

2

bathymetric lidar surveying

2

gun lidar

2

enerquest lidar

2

cola com como escola lidar na

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LIDAR

Language Translations for "LIDAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

tids-opløsnings-lidar-fluorsensor (time resolved lidar fluorosensor). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

lidar-fluorosensor gemeten met tijdresolutie (time resolved lidar fluorosensor), LIDAR met beeldoverdracht (imaging LIDAR). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kuvantamis-LIDAR (imaging LIDAR). (various references)

   

French

  

LIDAR image (imaging LIDAR), fluorocapteur lidar résolution dans le temps (time resolved lidar fluorosensor). (various references)

   

German

  

Lidar-Fluorosensor mit Zeitauflösung (time resolved lidar fluorosensor), LIDAR mit Bildübertragung (imaging LIDAR). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

LIDAR με εκπομπή εικόνας (imaging LIDAR), αισθητήρας φθορισμού ανίχνευσης φωτός και σκόπευσης με χρονική ανάλυση (time resolved fluorosensor, time resolved lidar fluorosensor). (various references)

   

Italian

  

radar ottico con formazione di immagini (imaging LIDAR), fluororilevatore lidar con risoluzione temporale (time resolved lidar fluorosensor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idarlay

   

Portuguese

  

LIDAR com transmissão de imagens (imaging LIDAR), detector lidar de flúor de resolução temporal (time resolved lidar fluorosensor). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

LIDAR con transmisión de imágenes (imaging LIDAR), detector de flúor con resolución temporal lidar (time resolved lidar fluorosensor). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: LIDAR

Derivations

Words beginning with "LIDAR": lidars. (additional references)

Words containing "LIDAR": solidarism, solidarisms, solidarist, solidaristic, solidarists, solidarities, solidarity, solidary. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: LIDAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: drail, laird, liard.

Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-r"

-1 letter: arid, aril, dial, dirl, laid, lair, lard, lari, liar, lira, raid, rail, rial.

-2 letters: aid, ail, air, dal, lad, lar, lid, rad, ria, rid.

-3 letters: ad, ai, al, ar, id, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-r"
 

+1 letter: aldrin, aridly, ariled, bridal, derail, dialer, drails, lairds, laired, liards, lidars, lizard, radial, railed, redial, relaid, ribald.

 

+2 letters: acridly, admiral, aldrins, baldric, bedrail, brailed, bridals, cordial, dallier, dariole, darling, decrial, deliria, derails, dialers, dialler, dilater, dilator, dipolar, diurnal, gladier, glaired, goliard, hardily, kilorad, labroid, lairdly, laniard, lardier, larding, leadier, lizards, mandril, nadiral, ordinal, predial, pyralid, rabidly, radiale, radials, radical, radicel, radicle, rallied, rapidly, readily, redials, redtail, ribalds, ridable, rimland, rivaled, tardily, trailed, triclad, uredial.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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