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by wweissbluth 95 days ago
That's super expensive. The majority of those costs are driven by the CapEx of the LiDAR unit. Ours is over $20k. In reality, though, it cost probably <$200 of operating expenses to collect that data.

The solution here is higher utilization of expensive LiDAR. So many pads, and few drones :D