Sure.  Except with radar, you have to wait for the signal to round trip.  And your radar transmission gives your position away.

 

LIDAR:  Range and bearing, digital.

 

 

Yup.  Although if you have two of them slightly separated, and hooked to digital cameras, you get range and bearing, in half the time it takes radar, without giving away your position.  Observation over time will give you the object's course and speed, same as radar.

 

 

 

Note that you don't really need them set up like this, if you have two cameras and know how far apart they are, you can do the same thing with a little math. 

 

 

Ancient but still an OK overview:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Again, replace the eyepiece with a digital camera lense, and get your data in digital format.