The second laser scanning webinar in the Autodesk, Topcon, Spar series will be one week from today – March 25, 2010 from 10:00 to 11:00 AM PST.

I just came across a reference to a new LIDAR/GIS blog through a post by Jason Amadori on LiDAR DTM editing.

This presentation on breaklines by Kenny Legleiter at Merrick provides an excellent introduction to the issues surrounding the use of breaklines.

Martin Isenburg has developed a lossless data compressor for LAS.

1. Medical researchers at UCI’s Beckman Laser Scanning Institute have developed optical, metabolic signatures for malignant breast cancer tumors.
2. Traditional mammography often misses tumors in dense tissue.
3. Young women with tumors are often mis-diagnosed.

Great article on the tricks employed in creating today’s best racing games.

1. From what I can find out Revit is still not point cloud friendly.
2. Small quantities can be imported via DXF or IFC’s, but the workarounds are painful.
3. Autodesk will be releasing there annual product updates in the next month or so. Hopefully Revit will have some kind of point cloud support.

1. What if we could start over with all the technology we have today?
2. What would a truly integrated 3D built environment system architecture look like?
3. I have to think laser scanning would be one of the foundation technologies.

For those who were not able to attend the live session please visit the Autodesk Civil Engineering Resource Center.

Brent Gelhar from Optech correctly pointed out to me that my comment about structured light laser scanners being like a flash LiDAR was well, let’s say, wrong.