LiDAR News

1. SPAR 2010 is getting off to a great start with the mobile rigs showing up early and the exhibitors investing more in their booths.
2. The Boot Camps were well attended. Many thanks to the volunteers for all their hard work.
3. Overall the tone was cautiously optimistic about the coming year.

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1. ClearEdge3D will showcase their automated feature extraction software at SPAR 2010.
2. EdgeWise can now run in batch mode and extract ground surfaces.
3. They are also going to offer a 64 bit version.

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1. The top app for LiDAR in a Google search is orienteering.
2. Reminds me of the early days of GPS when people planned hikes with the digital USGS topo maps.
3. The more consumer apps the better.

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1. What seems like extreme accuracy in the terrestrial scanning market is SOP in the metrology world.
2. Bountiful Baby purchased a Laser Design SURVEYOR for the high accuracy – 0.011 mm and resolution – 0.005 mm.
3. This will allow them to create 3D CAD files to support their reverse engineering processes.

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1. SPAR 2010 kicks off on Sunday with the popular Boot Camps.
2. Attendance is running ahead of last year and may come in as high as plus 20%.
3. There will certainly be a lot of opportunity to learn from the industry leaders and see the latest in technology.

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1. CadMaps is using Silverlight to create a video index to large LiDAR datasets.
2. The video acts as pointer into the file.
3. LiDAR cross sections are rapidly retrieved and displayed on the fly.

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1. Honey bees can be trained to locate land mines with great accuracy.
2. LiDAR is then used to track the swarm to the land mine location.
3. The site must be relatively level in order to maintain line of sight.

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1. Direct Dimensions is going Hollywood.
2. They are hosting an open house on February 3 in Los Angeles, CA to highlight the Dimensional Imaging technology.
3. They are able to create 3D still and video images without the use of laser scanners.

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1. The ASTM E57.04 Data Interoperability standard will be balloted in the next 30 days.
2. A beta test program is going to be announced at SPAR.
3. The test methods subcommittee is considering a shift to performance specifications.

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1. Detecting thin layers of algae is not a trivial remote sensing problem.
2. The Earth Systems Research Lab recently identified an algal bloom using LiDAR.
3. This was the first time that this had been accomplished.

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