- SPAR 2010 is getting off to a great start with the mobile rigs showing up early and the exhibitors investing more in their booths.
- The Boot Camps were well attended. Many thanks to the volunteers for all their hard work.
- Overall the tone was cautiously optimistic about the coming year.
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Posted by Gene V. Roe on February 8th, 2010 under Conferences, Education, Technology • No Comments
- ClearEdge3D will showcase their automated feature extraction software at SPAR 2010.
- EdgeWise can now run in batch mode and extract ground surfaces.
- They are also going to offer a 64 bit version.
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Posted by Gene V. Roe on February 5th, 2010 under Business Development, Conferences, Software, Technology • No Comments
- The top app for LiDAR in a Google search is orienteering.
- Reminds me of the early days of GPS when people planned hikes with the digital USGS topo maps.
- The more consumer apps the better.
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Posted by Gene V. Roe on February 4th, 2010 under Business Development, Orgs • No Comments
- What seems like extreme accuracy in the terrestrial scanning market is SOP in the metrology world.
- Bountiful Baby purchased a Laser Design SURVEYOR for the high accuracy – 0.011 mm and resolution – 0.005 mm.
- This will allow them to create 3D CAD files to support their reverse engineering processes.
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Posted by Gene V. Roe on February 3rd, 2010 under Technology, The Industry • 1 Comment
- SPAR 2010 kicks off on Sunday with the popular Boot Camps.
- Attendance is running ahead of last year and may come in as high as plus 20%.
- There will certainly be a lot of opportunity to learn from the industry leaders and see the latest in technology.
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Posted by Gene V. Roe on February 1st, 2010 under Business Development, Conferences, Education, Technology, The Industry • No Comments
- CadMaps is using Silverlight to create a video index to large LiDAR datasets.
- The video acts as pointer into the file.
- LiDAR cross sections are rapidly retrieved and displayed on the fly.
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Posted by Gene V. Roe on January 31st, 2010 under Software, Technology • 1 Comment
- Honey bees can be trained to locate land mines with great accuracy.
- LiDAR is then used to track the swarm to the land mine location.
- The site must be relatively level in order to maintain line of sight.
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Posted by Gene V. Roe on January 31st, 2010 under Research, remote sensing • No Comments
- Direct Dimensions is going Hollywood.
- They are hosting an open house on February 3 in Los Angeles, CA to highlight the Dimensional Imaging technology.
- They are able to create 3D still and video images without the use of laser scanners.
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Posted by Gene V. Roe on January 29th, 2010 under Business Development, Software, Technology • No Comments
- The ASTM E57.04 Data Interoperability standard will be balloted in the next 30 days.
- A beta test program is going to be announced at SPAR.
- The test methods subcommittee is considering a shift to performance specifications.
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Posted by Gene V. Roe on January 28th, 2010 under Education, Research, Standards • No Comments
- Detecting thin layers of algae is not a trivial remote sensing problem.
- The Earth Systems Research Lab recently identified an algal bloom using LiDAR.
- This was the first time that this had been accomplished.
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Posted by Gene V. Roe on January 27th, 2010 under Education, Government, Research, remote sensing • No Comments