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Rare card · Science
Lidar, a Rare card
Lidar is a method for determining ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the optical receiver.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 320,000
Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Lidar quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Lidar card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
LiDAR is used within ______, airborne, and mobile equipment around the globe.
Answer
terrestrial. LiDAR is used within terrestrial, airborne, and mobile equipment around the globe. From the Lidar article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Lidar. Lidar 89 · Tengrism 85 · Calcium carbonate 82 · Paul Erdős 79 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Lidar may operate in a fixed direction or it may scan directions, in a special combination of 3D scanning and laser scanning.
- LiDAR is used within terrestrial, airborne, and mobile equipment around the globe.
- It is commonly used to make high-resolution maps, with applications in surveying, geodesy, geomatics, archaeology, geography, geology, geomorphology, seismology, forestry, atmospheric physics, laser guidance, airborne laser swathe mapping, and laser altimetry.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lidar article was read about 320,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Lidar
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Lidar (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
