Systems and techniques are provided for synchronizing sensor operations. An example method includes determining a frequency of each scan cycle of a sensor configured to scan different regions of space; based on the frequency, a field-of-view (FOV) of the sensor, and a FOV of an additional sensor, determining an amount of time between a state of a first scan cycle of the sensor in which a point within the FOV of the sensor is aligned with a point within the FOV of the additional sensor and a state of a second scan cycle in which the point within the FOV of the sensor is aligned with the point within the FOV of the additional sensor; determining a time offset based on the amount of time; and sending, to the additional sensor, a signal configured to trigger the additional sensor to capture data at/after time intervals defined by the time offset.