1. Introduction . Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is a remote optical sensing technique to measure the distance to an object. The technology was originally pioneered by militaries around the world and one of the first implementations of LIDAR was as range finders, produced by Ericsson AB, for Swedish coastal guns in 1968 [ 1 ], a mere eight years after the first laser was constructed. Since then, LIDAR has also found many civilian applications such as automation, robotics [ 2 ], m...