{"id":276270,"date":"2026-06-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/new-lidar-technology-revolutionizes-ocean-observation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:45:15","slug":"new-lidar-technology-revolutionizes-ocean-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/new-lidar-technology-revolutionizes-ocean-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"New LiDAR Technology Revolutionizes Ocean Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deeperblue.com\/new-lidar-technology-revolutionizes-ocean-observation\/\">New LiDAR Technology Revolutionizes Ocean Observation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deeperblue.com\/new-lidar-technology-revolutionizes-ocean-observation\/\">https:\/\/www.deeperblue.com\/new-lidar-technology-revolutionizes-ocean-observation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-19 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.deeperblue.com\">www.deeperblue.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers have used a new <strong>LiDAR<\/strong> technology to revolutionize ocean observation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The latest development comes from the <strong>Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission<\/strong>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a collaborative international effort designed to transform our understanding of Earth\u2019s water bodies. The program uses a dynamic mapping system to provide views of both the ocean\u2019s surface and terrestrial freshwater, such as lakes, rivers and reservoirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new ability allows <strong>SWOT<\/strong> to measure the height of water surfaces with extreme precision. This allows scientists to map variations in water height across global oceans and inland water bodies at a resolution previously unattainable. This information is instrumental in tracking ocean currents, eddies and even smaller-scale features that play a pivotal role in the global climate system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new technology enables <strong>SWOT<\/strong> to take a wide-swath approach, capturing broad, detailed images of water movement. This capability makes it a critical component of modern Earth observation. Operating alongside other missions like ICESat-2, PACE and EarthCARE, SWOT helps researchers better understand the ocean\u2019s structure, biology, and environmental dynamics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>SWOT\u2019s<\/strong> data is critical for water management, flood prediction, and climate monitoring. Because it can estimate river and lake heights, it provides data essential for tracking freshwater availability and fluctuations in surface water storage across the planet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can find the original research in the <\/span><strong>Journal of Remote Sensing<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deeperblue.com\/new-lidar-technology-revolutionizes-ocean-observation\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New LiDAR Technology Revolutionizes Ocean Observation https:\/\/www.deeperblue.com\/new-lidar-technology-revolutionizes-ocean-observation\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-19 14:00:00 Source Domain: www.deeperblue.com Researchers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.deeperblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AdobeStock_125221901-700x467.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276275,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276270\/revisions\/276275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}