ZEB1 Product Review : Cyn René Whitfield – As the LiDAR market continues to evolve consumers are benefiting from more and better choices in the technology to capture as-built data. The original LiDAR scanner, about the size of a desk mounted on a tripod has now evolved in about 12 years to smaller, dynamic data collectors mounted on vehicles. Now the power of 3D ...
Reclaiming Human Habitat in the Gila River Reservation, Arizona": Paul Tice – In March, 2013 I was afforded the opportunity to laser scan and create DTMs of two properties in the Gila River Reservation about 40 minutes south of Tempe, Arizona - home of Arizona State University. As I picked up my 150 lbs of scanning equipment and luggage at the Phoenix airport, I was ...
LiDAR News - Recent Articles
From the Editor: Uncertainty is Uncertain
Welcome to the SPAR 2013 edition of LiDAR Magazine. This year's SPAR event is being held at a new venue-- the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, which is in you guessed it--Colorado, April 1518. It looks like a great location, but certainly not like Houston where many people can .... Read the Article
Laser Scanning Africa's Heritage
Over the past eight years the "African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes Database" also , known as the Zamani project, based in the Geomatics Division of the University of Cape Town has documented more than 40 important African heritage .... Read the Article
LiDAR Supports Post Tornado Response in Mississippi
In the late afternoon hours of February 10, 2013, the University of Southern Mississippi and the city in which it is located, Hattiesburg took a direct hit from a tornado that was officially classified as an EF-4. The destruction left in the wake .... Read the Article
How to Tame a Wild Stockpile
Take one everyday stockpile survey, bring it indoors and ramp up the conditions with dust, intense heat (131°F or 55°C) and the perils of fast-moving heavy machinery—suddenly that commonplace surveying job makes for one wild ride. Every month surveyors from Hille Thompson .... Read the Article
Automating Methodologies for Advanced Asset Management
A major goal in the management of a LiDAR workflow is to minimize the touches, the number of "mouse clicks" needed to reduce raw collection data into functional information. The best way to achieve this is through the automation of as many of the redundant tasks as possible. In the .... Read the Article
Real-Time, Full Motion 3D Color LiDAR Imagery
To get you in the right frame of mind let's start by considering the following real world scenarios: Imagine: major damage from an earthquake or tornado with visual cues destroyed, roads blocked, buildings toppled, ruble everywhere. The disaster response team needs a georeferenced .... Read the Article
Space Technologies Create a New Class of LiDAR
Space technologies have become an essential part of everyday life here on Earth. Many products and activities that we take for granted-- such as global communications, weather forecasting, GPS, light-emitting diodes and even enriched baby food--would be almost unthinkable without the .... Read the Article
Challenges of Measuring Geyser Deformation with LiDAR
In September 2010 a multi-disciplinary team of geoscientists set up camp for four days at Yellowstone National Park's Lone Star Geyser. The objective of the expedition was to use geophysical methods to characterize eruption cycles in the geyser .... Read the Article
Creation of a Digital 3-Dimensional Model
Laser scanning as a method of acquiring 3D spatial information is used in various economic sectors. In this article, we will focus on laser scanning for industrial plant, or more precisely on the execution of a 3D asfound scan of the petrochemical complex for the production of synthetic rubber .... Read the Article
Thinking of Buying a Scan System? Use SWOT
There is a tool your company can use to evaluate whether to outsource to a service provider or invest in a LiDAR scan system. SWOT Analysis has been used in business to identify sources of competitive advantage as well as potential liabilities, but it can be more than just an exercise of .... Read the Article
Industry Pioneers: Alastair Jenkins, CEO GeoDigital International
At 43 years of age Alastair Jenkins thought it might be time to retire. After all he had been on quite a roll. In the previous fifteen years he had taken two companies public and had just sold one of them-- Mosaic Mapping which had its roots in a garage in Hamilton, Ontario Canada to their .... Read the Article
Random Points: Data Fusion—Part 1
Now that we have a plethora of data collection devices hosted on a single platform, we often hear the term "sensor fusion" bandied about. For example, a mobile laser scanning (MLS) system might contain a position & orientation system (POS), several framing cameras, a 360° camera .... Read the Article
The Business of Laser scanning: Confession
My company Precision 3D has been very fortunate to have fantastic growth over a very short time period--mostly due to the outstanding work effort of our team. However, I wonder how far along we'd be now if I'd done my job better as the leader. I have a title that suggests I'm supposed to .... Read the Article
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