Posts Tagged ‘mobile mapping’
1. One of the most hyped news stories from the CES this week is Navteq’s True laser scanning system.
2. This is opening up the consumer side of laser scanning.
3. It is all based on the mobile market – the place where the serious venture capital is being dropped.
Posted by Gene V. Roe on January 7th, 2010 under Business Development, Technology, The Industry Tags: 3D laser scanning, Bing Maps, CES, Consumer Electronics Show, laser scanning, LiDAR, LiDAR Mapping, Microsoft, mobile, mobile mapping, Navteq, tablet computers, Velodyne-64E S2 •
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1. Spar 2010 has an agenda that offers something for everyone.
2. Mobile and Scan to BIM appear to be the top tracks.
3. Add the exhibits and the networking and the ROI is going to be hard to beat.
Posted by Gene V. Roe on January 7th, 2010 under Business Development, Conferences, Education, Standards, The Industry Tags: 3D imaging, 3D laser scanning, Dr. Alan Carswell, laser scanning, Laser scanning boot camps, LiDAR, LiDAR Mapping, mobile mapping, Optech, SPAR 2010 •
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Chalk up another major company selecting the Optech system. I think that this has a lot to do with Optech’s presence in the aerial LiDAR market where they have been managing a dynamic platform for many years.
Sanborn is a pioneer in the deployment of mobile mapping technology. As early as 2001, Sanborn was creating digital [...]
Posted by Gene V. Roe on December 17th, 2009 under Uncategorized Tags: mobile mapping, Sanborn •
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1. Oxford Technical Systems has designed a low cost 2D mobile mapping system.
2. If you can live with 10 – 15 cm then this could be worth investigating.
3. Alignment of the scanner and GPS/IMU is critical.
Posted by Gene V. Roe on December 15th, 2009 under Business Development, Research, Technology Tags: 2D laser scanning, 3D imaging, 3D laser scanning, GPS, inertial guidance, laser scanning, LiDAR, LiDAR Mapping, mobile mapping, mobile scanning, Oxford Technical Systems, OXTS, Q120, Riegl, RT2002 •
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Mobile mapping is the hot platform.
SPAR 2010 has 7 of the leading mobile mapping vendors signed up to demo their rigs.
The ROI for SPAR 2010 is going to be very high.
Posted by Gene V. Roe on December 10th, 2009 under Conferences, Technology, The Industry Tags: 3D imaging, 3D laser scanning, Houston, industrial plant, laser scanning, LiDAR, LiDAR Mapping, mobile mapping, SPAR 2010 •
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1. A group at the Stevens Institute of Technology have developed a 3D mobile mapping system for less than $20k.
2. ROAMS uses a 2D scanner on a rotating and pivoting platform to obtain 3D coverage.
3. This kind of innovation is going to rapidly expand the laser scanning market.
Posted by Gene V. Roe on November 20th, 2009 under Business Development, Education, Research, Technology, The Industry Tags: 3D imaging, 3D laser scanning, laser scanning, LiDAR, LiDAR Mapping, mobile mapping, mobile scanning, ROAMS, Stevens Institute of Technology •
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1. I wanted to check back with Velodyne to see if there was any news.
2. Velodyne is teaming with GrayMatter to offer a trial version of its visualization point cloud software.
3. Is the mobile mapping community going to be interested in this technology?
Posted by Gene V. Roe on July 1st, 2009 under Business Development, Research, Software, Technology Tags: 3D Flash Ladar, 3D imaging, 3D laser scanning, autonomous vehicle navigation, DARPA, Google, GrayMatter, laser scanning, LiDAR, LiDAR Mapping, mobile mapping, Velodyne Acoustics, Velodyne-64E S2 •
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