Category Archives: Business Development

Shape Extraction from Point Clouds in AutoCAD

Posted on July 29, 2010 by lidar

Autodesk Labs has recently announced the availability of a new “Point Cloud Shape Extraction Plug-in for AutoCAD”. Continue reading →

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Laser Scanning for Airport Obstruction Surveys

Posted on July 27, 2010 by lidar

The Transportation Research Board has issued a research report on the use of LiDAR for airport obstruction surveys. Continue reading →

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Israeli Wind Lidar Startup Gets $9 Million

Posted on July 26, 2010 by lidar

Pentalum Technologies, Ltd., an Israeli firm recently raised $9 million in first round financing to produce a LiDAR system that to remotely sense wind. Continue reading →

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Laser Scanning and Architectural Details

Posted on July 25, 2010 by lidar

One company, Streamline Automation has developed a complete system for creating the most intricate architectural details that includes the use of laser scanning. Continue reading →

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Assessing Wind Farm Locations with LiDAR

Posted on July 18, 2010 by lidar

Mainstream Renewable Power, has completed the first extensive wind assessment campaign in Latin America using Natural Power’s ZephIR lidar Continue reading →

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Laser Scanning and Blue Marble

Posted on July 14, 2010 by lidar

In the past 24 hours I have seen 2 announcements – one from Optech and one from Topcon concerning the use of Blue Marble’s coordinate transformation software. Continue reading →

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Mobile Laser Scanning Software – Certainty 3D

Posted on July 13, 2010 by lidar

Ted Knaak has spent the past couple of years building a new software company – Certainty 3D. Continue reading →

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Laser Scanning the Madison County Bridges

Posted on July 12, 2010 by lidar

Four of the six remaining Madison County, Iowa bridges will be laser scanned for historical preservation purposes. Continue reading →

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Hexagon to Link Laser Scanning with CAD

Posted on July 9, 2010 by lidar

1. Hexagon, parent of Leica Geosystems acquired Intergraph this week.
2. Part of the strategic vision is the full time fusion of laser scanned data with the Intergraph CAD and GIS applications.
3. This is certainly going to change the competitive landscape.

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ESRI and LiDAR

Posted on July 6, 2010 by lidar

I came across this pre – ESRI User Conference 2010 question – “What is ESRI doing with LiDAR?”. Continue reading →

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