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Landing craft

A landing craft is a small, shallow-draft boat with a bow ramp that carries troops, vehicles, and cargo from an offshore ship onto a beach, central to amphibious warfare.

Landing Craft Air Cushion

The Landing Craft Air Cushion, known as the JEFF boat, is a United States Navy hovercraft that carries Marines and equipment from ships directly over the beach.

Landing craft tank

The landing craft tank (LCT) is a shallow-draft naval craft with a bow ramp, developed in Britain in 1940 to discharge tanks directly onto beaches.

Landing Craft Utility

The Landing Craft Utility (LCU) is a steel landing craft of the United States Navy and Marine Corps that carries vehicles, troops, and cargo from ships to shore.

Landing gear

Landing gear is the system of wheels, skids, floats, or skis that supports an aircraft's weight on the ground, absorbs landing impact, and allows maneuvering on land or water.

Landing Ship, Tank

The Landing Ship, Tank (LST) is an ocean-going military vessel that lands tanks and troops directly onto beaches through bow doors, first built in World War II.

Landini

Landini is an Italian agricultural tractor brand founded in 1884 by Giovanni Landini in Fabbrico, and today one of three marques of the Argo Tractors group.

Landis+Gyr

Landis+Gyr Group AG is a Swiss energy technology company headquartered in Cham, Zug, founded in 1896, providing smart metering and grid edge solutions to over 2,000 utilities.

Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte

The Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte was a 1942 German design study by Krupp for a 1,000-tonne super-heavy tank armed with battleship guns, canceled in 1943.

Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster

The Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster was a proposed German super-heavy self-propelled gun designed by Krupp in 1942 to carry an 800 mm gun on tracks.

Landline

Landline (fixed telephone connection) is a service transmitting voice signals over physical wire, including copper or fiber optic cable, from a customer's premises to the local exchange.

Landmark 81

Landmark 81 is a 461.2 m, 81-storey supertall skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, opened in 2019 as the tallest building in Vietnam and, at completion, Southeast Asia.

Landmark-based localization

Landmark-based localization is a robot localization approach in which a robot estimates its pose by observing discrete, identifiable landmarks stored in a map, underlying feature-based SLAM.

Landsat 7

Landsat 7 was an American Earth observation satellite launched in 1999 to image the land surface with its ETM+ instrument, collecting over 3.3 million images before its 2025 decommissioning.

Landsat 8

Landsat 8, also known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, is an American Earth-observation satellite launched in 2013 to continue the Landsat program's multispectral imagery of the land surface.

Landsat 9

Landsat 9 is an Earth-observing satellite jointly managed by NASA and the USGS, launched in 2021 from Vandenberg to continue the Landsat program's global land observations since 1972.

Landsat program

The Landsat program is a joint NASA and USGS series of Earth-observing satellites that has continuously imaged Earth's land since Landsat 1 launched in 1972.

Landscape architecture

Landscape architecture is the profession that analyzes, plans, and designs outdoor spaces like parks, gardens, campuses, and waterfronts; the term became common after 1863, when Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed New York's Central Park.

Landscape urbanism

Landscape urbanism is a theory of urban design that treats landscape rather than buildings as the primary medium of the city, coined by Charles Waldheim in 1996.

Landstar System

Landstar System is an asset-light transportation management company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 1988, it delivers freight services through about 1,050 independent agents and third-party capacity providers.

Landwasser Viaduct

The Landwasser Viaduct (Landwasserviadukt) is a 65-meter-high masonry railway viaduct near Filisur in Graubünden, Switzerland, built in 1902 on the Rhaetian Railway's UNESCO-listed Albula Line.

Landwind X7 (陆风X7)

The Landwind X7 (陆风X7) was a compact crossover SUV made by Chinese manufacturer Landwind from 2015, known as a close copy of the Range Rover Evoque.

Lane

A lane is one of the longitudinal strips into which a roadway may be divided for the movement of traffic, as defined in the 1968 Convention on Road Traffic.

Lane Cove Tunnel

The Lane Cove Tunnel is a 3.6 km twin-tube toll motorway in Sydney, Australia, opened on 25 March 2007 to link the M2 at North Ryde with the Gore Hill Freeway at Artarmon.

Lane departure warning system

A lane departure warning system is a vehicle safety technology that monitors lane markings and alerts the driver when the vehicle drifts out of its lane.

Lane detection

Lane detection is a computer vision task that identifies driving lane boundaries from camera and LiDAR data in real time, supporting lane keeping and departure warning.

Lane Martin

Lane W. Martin is an American materials scientist who studies ferroelectric and multiferroic oxide thin films; he directs the Rice Advanced Materials Institute at Rice University.

Lane positioning

Lane positioning is the motorcycle riding practice of choosing where within a lane to travel, so the rider can see the road, be seen, and keep an escape route.

Lane splitting

Lane splitting, also called whitelining, is when a motorcyclist rides between rows of vehicles in the same lane. California alone fully permits it, legalizing it in 2017.

LangChain

LangChain is an open-source framework for building applications on large language models, started in October 2022 and grown into a family of agent-engineering products including LangGraph and LangSmith.