Open sourced LiDAR dataset?

Question

I mean laser ranging data from a ground based, moving vehicle. As it's the data the self-driving algorithms chew on, I'd assume there must be some interest.

Answer 1

Have you tried University of Michigan? They have some large datasets available for download from their test runs around campus:

We provide a dataset collected by an autonomous ground vehicle testbed, based upon a modified Ford F-250 pickup truck. The vehicle is outfitted with a professional (Applanix POS LV) and consumer (Xsens MTI-G) Inertial Measuring Unit (IMU), a Velodyne 3D-lidar scanner, two push-broom forward looking Riegl lidars, and a Point Grey Ladybug3 omnidirectional camera system. Here we present the time-registered data from these sensors mounted on the vehicle, collected while driving the vehicle around the Ford Research campus and downtown Dearborn, Michigan during November-December 2009. The vehicle path trajectory in these datasets contain several large and small-scale loop closures, which should be useful for testing various state of the art computer vision and SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) algorithms.

Answer 2

The University of Wisconsin Lidar Group provides several LIDAR data sets here.

The Institute of Meteorology of the University of Hamburg, Germany, provides LIDAR data here.

You might also have a look into the EBAS database of the NILU (Norwegian Institute for Air Research). It hosts several air quality datasets from all over Europe and also from some non-European locations. Maybe, there is also LIDAR data available.

Answer 3

NCLT - The University of Michigan North Campus Long-Term Vision and LIDAR Dataset http://robots.engin.umich.edu/nclt/

You can found another lidar dataset in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.08775.pdf