LiDAR

Ever wonder where you were at an airport or transit station and needed to find your gate or a restroom? GoodMaps, based out of Louisville, Kentucky, is working on an app to use your smartphone’s features to help you find your place. GoodMaps will come to a venue like an airport or a transit agency ...

Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Kim Byung-suk) has developed building scan to BIM (Building Information Modeling)-based reverse engineering technology required for 3D geospatial information modeling domains such as digital twin information modeling. Scan to BIM-based reverse engineering technology was studied to prevent errors and rework caused by manual work when ...

Monterey Bay, California, is known for its beaches. Big Sur in the north is a favorite destination among surfers, and Moss Landing in the south is a bird-watchers paradise. But just off the coast lies a stunning geographic landscape that few know about—and even fewer have seen with their own eyes. It’s called the Monterey ...

Estudo conduzido por grupo do Inpe e colaboradores combina varredura da área por lasers aerotransportados, imagens de satélite e inventários de campo. Resultados podem contribuir para a definição de políticas de planejamento, conservação e manejo sustentável. No contexto da grave crise vivida pela Amazônia, uma boa notícia é a divulgação de um novo mapa de ...

Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon has developed the Leica BLK2GO PULSE, its first-person laser scanner that combines lidar sensor technology with the original Leica BLK2GO form factor. The technology is set to be released in early 2024. The scanner offers users a rapid, simple and intuitive first-person scanning method that can be controlled with a ...

Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Öğretim Üyesi Doç. Dr. Alperen Coşkuner, orman yangınlarını, LİDAR olarak bilinen lazer tarama teknolojisi ile belirlenebileceğini, bu alanda yaptıkları ilk araştırmaların yüksek doğrulukta sonuçlar verdiğini bildirdi. Orman yangınlarıyla mücadelede başarılı olabilmek, yangın risk ve tehlike potansiyeli ile yangın davranışı hakkında doğru ve hızlı bilgi verebilen kapsamlı sistemlerin varlığıyla mümkün olabilirken bu sistemlerin ...

Consultant Card Geotechnics (CGL) has applied aerial laser surveying to pinpoint natural hazards on development sites across the UK. CGL is using geospatial data from aerial survey and geographic data company Bluesky. The data has formed part of the investigation stage on projects ranging from proposed residential developments to long, linear overhead powerlines. High-resolution aerial ...

Model cyfrowego bliźniaka Zamościa powstaje w ramach międzynarodowego projektu naukowego „Zero energy buildings for zero energy neighbourhoods ZEB4ZEN”. Jego budżet to ponad 2 miliony euro. Głównym celem przedsięwzięcia jest opracowanie ponadnarodowej metodologii i regionalnych planów działania, które pokażą, jak do roku 2050 przekształcić historyczne dzielnice miejskie w dzielnice o niemal zerowym zużyciu energii. „Miasta idealne” ...

Balko Tech, a Canadian innovator in the geospatial industry, has announced the launch of Connectiv, the next evolution of its modular drone Lidar system. This release also includes the introduction of the e-Connect application. Following the success of the e-ONE system in 2021, Connectiv represents a significant leap forward in technology, designed to offer geospatial ...

Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, has added new capabilities to the Leica BLK2FLY. It now has the ability to scan indoors, providing expanded coverage for complex scanning projects, and the ability to create digital twins for entire structures, both indoors and outdoors. Hexagon upgraded the autonomous UAV scanning system to allow for safe, effective indoor ...

The U.S. Geological Survey recently published a new topobathymetric lidar dataset for the Potomac River as part of its 3D Elevation Program (3DEP). Topobathymetric lidar provides 3D maps of the submerged riverine topography. The maps were produced in two phases for more than 120 river miles of the Potomac River through a data-acquisition contract with ...

The AlphaUni 20 (AU20) Lidar system represents a new era in cost-effective, multi-platform mobile mapping solutions, according to CHC Navigation (CHCNav), a global leader in precision mapping, positioning and navigation technologies. Harnessing the power of six years of innovation and product development fuelled by CHCNAV’s Lidar technology, the AU20 is aimed at redefining mobile mapping ...

The Australian Navy has tested a new Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) equipped drone designed to support amphibious operations. Using the sensors, the drone, an S100 unmanned aerial vehicle, performed bathymetric and littoral light detection during this year’s ‘Exercise Sea Raider’. Deployed from the HMAS Adelaide, the drone projected green wavelength laser beams through the ...

With the release of GeoCue’s three new, high-end TrueView 3D Imaging Systems, surveying and mapping professionals can take their drone-based operations to new levels. The Alabama-based company’s TV625, TV680, and TV680LR offer customers access to a full range of advanced-level systems for collecting LiDAR and photogrammetry. Each system combines a lightweight and compact laser scanner ...

Archaeologists at the University of Exeter have used laser scans collected as part of the Environment Agency’s National LiDAR Programme to identify new sections of road west of the previously understood boundary. Among the things it reveals is that far from Exeter being the main nerve centre of the network, it was North Tawton that ...

Technology is furthering innovation in wildland firefighting across the west, including the Tahoe Basin — and not just in the process of extinguishing flames but in prevention of these catastrophic burns. Last fall, researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno, kicked off a series of projects that seek to map out the vegetation in the ...

GeoCue is delighted to announce the inclusion of TPI, the largest supplier of geospatial equipment in Poland, into its global distribution network. This strategic partnership will create new opportunities for GeoCue and TPI to expand their reach and provide cutting-edge geospatial solutions to customers in Poland and beyond. As part of this collaboration, TPI now ...

Elsa Blanco Beausela, originaria de Palencia, cursa el grado de Biología en la Universidad de León. Su talento e innovación la llevaron a ganar el premio Talento Joven de la Asociación Activos y Felices, el cual será entregado en septiembre, en reconocimiento a su notable invento destinado a mejorar la vida de las personas ciegas. ...

Terrestrial LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) for 3D imaging has matured tremendously in the last decade, thanks to consumer (mobile phones and computers) and automotive safety and autonomy applications. Over 70 companies are vying for a portion of this $billion market. In the meantime, the technology has progressed for drone and higher altitude aerial 3D ...

Woolpert has been contracted to collect high-density Lidar data for more than 17,500 square kilometres of rural Texas to map electrical distribution poles and wires along with surrounding natural and man-made infrastructure. The data will be collected via fixed-wing manned aircraft. The high-density point cloud will be classified and used to construct survey grade 3D ...

VeriDaaS Corporation, a leading provider of high-quality geospatial data, and Tarin Resource Services, a prominent name in the Canadian geospatial industry, are thrilled to announce their strategic partnership. Under this new agreement, Tarin Resource Services has become an official reseller of VeriDaaS data, opening doors to unparalleled geospatial solutions for clients across various industries. The ...

Devices that move and operate in physical space need sensors to read their environment. One such sensing technology, LiDAR, has many potential applications, but is often too large or too expensive to be a viable choice. Now, a team of researchers at University of Washington has developed a much smaller and less costly form of ...

Bereits 48 Stunden nach dem massiven Bergsturz am Fluchthorn in der Silvrettagruppe am 11. Juni 2023 war ein Forscher:innen-Team des Instituts für Geographie in Kooperation mit dem Spinoff-Unternehmen Laserdata und Heli Tirol für das Land Tirol an der Absturzstelle mit dem Hubschrauber im Einsatz. Mit hochpräziser 3D-Laserscanning-Technologie erfassten die Expert:innen 3D-Geodaten, mit denen das Volumen ...

Leica Geosystems, a part of Hexagon, has launched the brand-new Leica CountryMapper, its most efficient solution yet for large-area imaging and Lidar mapping. The company unveiled this latest expansion to its hybrid sensor portfolio during the annual HxGN Live event. By integrating a large-format photogrammetric camera and a high-performance Lidar unit into a single system, ...

Both the geometric and spectral information of the target are available with the hyperspectral light detection and ranging (LiDAR) in a single measurement. This advanced technique extends the scope of imaging spectroscopy to spectral three-dimensional (3D) sensing. However, two major geometric radiative effects exist in hyperspectral LiDAR, namely, the distance effect and incidence angle effect, ...

A empresa responsável pelo escaneamento tridimensional da Itaipu finalizou os trabalhos na primeira quinzena de maio. Encerrada essa primeira fase, será possível agora concluir a modelagem 3D de toda a Área Industrial para dar continuidade aos projetos executivos na Atualização Tecnológica da Binacional. Esse modelo 3D digital substituirá os documentos estáticos e permitirá, a partir ...

The RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912, but the fate of the ship and its passengers has fascinated the popular imagination for more than a century. Now we have the first full-size 3D digital scan of the complete wreckage—a “digital twin” that captures Titanic in unprecedented detail. Magellan Ltd, ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wuhan University are conducting a sky-ground scientific experiment to test the condition of glaciers in the Haibei Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Northwest Qinghai province. The experiment has applied radars in three bands — P-band, L-band and Very High Frequency — and undertaken 11 flights, among which seven carried out ...

On Tuesday, NavVis, one of the leaders in wearable mobile mapping technologies, unveiled their next generation of wearable technology, the NavVis VLX 3. This is, as the name implies, the third generation of their wearable VLX system, with the NavVis VLX 2 having been released almost two years ago in July of 2021. In their ...

A project from Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh has now developed what it says is the first fully submerged lidar underwater transceiver system based on single-photon detection, and published the results in Optics Express. Heriot-Watt employed a CMOS-fabricated silicon single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detector to measure photon time-of-flight using picosecond resolution time-correlated single-photon ...