From The Editor: Remember Gutenberg?
Welcome to the first edition of the LiDAR Magazine for 2012. Hopefully everyone had a chance to "unplug" and enjoy some quality time with your family over the holidays. As you may have already noticed we have BIG news for the New Year: LiDAR Magazine is now in print and we ....
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Digitally Preserving the Icons of Rani ki Vav
CyArk is a nonprofit with the mission of "digitally preserving cultural heritage sites through collecting, archiving and providing open access to data created by laser scanning, digital modeling, and other state-of-the-art technologies." In response to the Taliban's destruction of the ....
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An Inside Look at IPLER
The Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response (IPLER) is a major activity housed within the Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science that seeks to cultivate the application of remote sensing technology and data products within ....
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EdgeWise Plant 2.0 Review
Having been an early adopter of 3D Laser Scanning (3DLS), it comes as a great relief when I see the increasing software options that are available today. In 2003 when I started performing laser scans with a Leica HDS 2500, the software options were minimal and the design industry was ....
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D4AR—4 Dimensional Augmented Reality
Imagine you are sitting at your office and would like to conduct a walk-through on your job site, but you are hundreds of miles away. Using a new D4AR--4 dimensional augmented reality--modeling technology, you can make a phone call to your construction site and ask your super....
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Beyond The Point Cloud: SPAR-Europe and ELMF 2011
"This is a death trap" answered Edwin Galea when questioned about the escape route from where he stood in case of a sudden fire. His answer was the opposite of a surprise in view of the excellent and enlightening presentation he had just delivered, titled "Burning Questions ....
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Airborne LiDAR for Obstruction Mapping: Enabling Flight Safety
As laser scanning has evolved and matured, it has increasingly become a new and eventually necessary tool in many industries. One area that has benefitted from the application of laser scanning is aviation safety. Airborne LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) is used to detect ....
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IP-S2 Makes Short Work of Queensland Flood Mapping
In early September 2011, Global Infrastructure Surveys (GIS), in conjunction with Rapid Survey Solutions (RSS), used Topcon's IP-S2 mobile mapping system to rapidly and efficiently map flood-affected areas in central Queensland for riskassessment purposes. Much of the ....
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Innovative Strategy for Facility Upgrading
How do you check the soundness of the roofs and utility system for 1,300 buildings--spread over more than 10 miles--in a comprehensive and cost-effective manner? Hill Air Force Base (AFB) used ArcGIS and thermal infrared radiation (IR) imagery to identify failing roofing and ....
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