Lidar, or light detection and ranging, is a remote sensing method leveraged for measuring the distance of an object. According to the American Geoscience Institute, a lidar makes use of a pulsed laser to calculate an object’s variable distances. These light pulses generate accurate 3D information when the information from the lidar systems is put together. A lidar sensor depicts numerous advantages, such as a better range, accuracy, field-of-view, positioning, night-time performance, and weather conditioning, over other sensor systems. However, lidars face operational limitations while detecting signs and differentiating between obstacles. Owing to this fact, lidars are used in sensor fusion-based systems, i.e. the combination of lidars, cameras and ultrasonic sensors, among others, is used for the precise autonomous operations. Furthermore, lidar manufacturers are working on the development of lidars with higher resolution to improve the performance of the lidar based vision systems. The lidars can be classified on the basis of technology

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