The Winter Solstice will soon be here in the New England. In celebration of the return to the light, Lidar News is hosting the 4th annual Lidar Art contest. We are looking for images with artistic appeal that ideally relate to the solstice and/or the holidays. Please send us your submission by December 15th. We will choose the top 3 […]
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Riegl and American Engineers, Inc. – Innovation Leaders Firm Background American Engineers, Inc. (AEI) is a full-service, award-winning surveying and mapping firm established more than 35 years ago in Glasgow, Kentucky. They have grown to a staff of more than 100 serving clients throughout the Southeast and Midwest from offices in Glasgow, Louisville and Owensboro, Kentucky as well as Marietta, […]
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Introduction Sam O. Hirota Inc. is a third generation family owned company and one of the oldest continuously operating consulting civil engineering, land surveying, and 3D imaging firms in Hawaii. The company has been an innovative technology leader in the AEC marketplace since its founding in 1963 by Sam O. Hirota who used the first desk top, automated land surveying […]
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Travel Channel Episode – The Lost Colony of Roanoke In my high school and college days I enjoyed the study of mathematics and science and just tolerated courses on history. Over the years, I’ve found myself drawn more and more to the study of history. I like to learn about the earliest evidence of mankind and watch the evolution of […]
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Future Proofing Singapore Singapore is home to some of the most profitable financial services, manufacturing and oil-refining corporations in the world. An island state just off the coast of southern Malaysia, its small size has clearly not impeded the success of residents or firms choosing to locate themselves there. But with its accomplishments come some very specific challenges for a […]
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The idea of using computer technologies to aid digital visualisation, preservation and reconstruction is not new. Traditionally, manual 3D modelling techniques were used to reconstruct various historical events, object or people. While being a useful tool in visualization, manual 3D modelling techniques could do just as much when it concerned itself with complex artefacts or sites due to the issues […]
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3D Elevation Information Underpins Our Understanding of Landslides A core mission of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is to provide information that leads to reduced loss of life and damage to property and infrastructure from landslides. Gathering this information relies on a detailed and accurate understanding of the landscape. The USGS Landslide Hazards Program (https://www.usgs.gov/science/mission-areas/ natural-hazards/landslide-hazards) conducts landslide hazard assessments, […]
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The Opportunity The decision to bring airborne LiDAR in-house requires a significant investment in both people and technology. Lidar News recently had the opportunity to interview Carlos Prieto and Ken Comeaux at SurvTech Solutions to learn more about their experience. Many people believe that entrepreneurs like to take risk. In fact, what makes a successful entrepreneur is that they are […]
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BACKGROUND: DroneMapper is one of the success stories in the fledgling field of UAV data collection and processing. After several decades of experience working in the aerospace industry, CEO Pierre Stoermer was quick to recognize the potential for drones as a viable low-cost alternative to manned aircraft for this purpose. Serving customers in a wide variety of industries and business […]
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GeoCue Group recently partnered with the National Park Service (NPS) in a pilot project to assess culturally significant areas within Gettysburg National Military Park using small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS). The area of interest (AOI) for this project was the western face of Little Round Top. Little Round Top was the location of a defensive stand by the Union army […]
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After 15 years in business, and over 13,000 As-Built surveys created, PPM finally took the plunge in February of this year and purchased our first laser scanner. Starting with the “good old days” of tape measure, paper, and pencil, we have tested and implemented several different technological advancements in As-Built surveying over the years: First it was the laser distance […]
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The more than 2800 Buddhist temples and pagodas of the world renowned heritage site of Bagan, in Myanmar, erected between the 9th and 13th century, are distributed over an area of 10 by 10 km, making the site the densest concentration of religious monuments worldwide. Earthquakes have threatened and damaged the structures of Bagan over the past centuries but especially […]
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Great War practice trenches, evidence of prehistoric enclosures and medieval mining pits are amongst the exciting archaeological remains revealed on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, UK in a new lidar project. Staffordshire County Council, in partnership with Historic England, is exploring this fascinating archaeological landscape as part of the Heritage Lottery funded ‘Chase Through Time’ project. Cannock Chase was designated in 1958 […]
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Hobu, Inc. has been leading the development of open source LiDAR processing tools for almost ten years, starting first with our libLAS project and evolving those tools to the more general PDAL point cloud processing library. We recently developed open source tools with business friendly licensing for point cloud data organization (Entwine) and web services (Greyhound). In this article, I […]
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RIEGL is Making the Difference Jonathan Beaty, Field Inspection Services Manager Kiewit Corporation is an employee-owned Fortune 500 contractor based in Omaha, Nebraska. Privately held, it is one of the largest contractors in the world. Jonathan Beaty is based in Lenexa, Kansas where he is Field Services and CAD Coordinator for Kiewit. Lidar News recently interviewed Jonathan to learn more […]
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Dr. Paul E. LaRocque VP Special Projects Teledyne Optech In 2014, Teledyne Optech launched the world’s first airborne multispectral lidar sensor, the Optech Titan. Bathy lidar sensors that use 532 nm (green) and 1064 nm for the airborne determination of water depths have existed for some time now. Some researchers analyzed data from these two wavelengths with other data collections […]
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Chloe Barnes, Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Leicester’s Department of Geography, shares with Lidar News a summary of the paper “Individual Tree Crown Delineation from Airborne Laser Scanning for Diseased Larch Forest Stands”. Summary of Paper: “Individual Tree Crown Delineation from Airborne Laser Scanning for Diseased Larch Forest Stands” The published research successfully isolated individual larch trees within a forest […]
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Mapping Flood Risk in the UK Written by Faith Clark There are numerous types of floods and many ways of classifying them. According to Wikipedia floods are classified mainly by their source – areal, riverine, estuarine and coastal, urban and catastrophic and, although using different language, the UK’s Environmental Law Association’s website uses a similar, perhaps simpler, classification – coastal, […]
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Product Review: FARO Scan Localizer Thank you to Meridian Engineering for this article. By Brian Boehmer and Tiana Moe Last month Meridian had the opportunity to test out one of FARO’s latest products, the Scan Localizer, through FARO’s Early Adopter program. The opportunity to give feedback has greatly enhanced the Localizer since it first appeared. The product tested is not […]
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Myths and Facts About BIM February 14, 2017 by Chanel Reid Why BIM? Building information modeling (BIM) is an exceptionally powerful tool for the design and construction industries. Offering a 3D visual database of your project, BIM contains all of the design and construction details required to virtually see and build your project. Owners are now capable of seeing into […]
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NSCC Topo-Bathymetric Lidar Research in support of Sustainable Coastal Development Thank you to the team at Nova Scotia Community College – Tim Webster, with support from Kate Collins, Nathan Crowell, Kevin McGuigan, Candace MacDonald, and many students and research assistants for the research contributing to this article. Introduction and Background The Applied Geomatics Research Group (AGRG) was formed in 2000 […]
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Merrick & Company has provided high definition scanning (HDS) for over 20 years. They recently scanned Scott’s Discovery Hut at Hut Point near McMurdo Sound on Ross Island. The data was to be used to help in the preservation of the hut which was assembled during the Discovery Expedition of 1901-1904. The hut was originally fabricated in New Zealand and […]
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We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 Winter Solstice Lidar as Art contest. Jefferson L. Searle of Meridian Engineering of West Jordan, Utah entered this stunning image which is a perfect scan for a solstice contest. Why you ask? Find out by reading the story about the scan and the Sun Tunnels art installation. We are grateful […]
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Jefferson Searle and Meridian Engineering are the winners of our 2016 Lidar as Art Winter Solstice contest. Here, Tiana Moe talks about the scan of the winning image, the inspiration behind the project, and another art scan undertaken by Meridian. Written by Tiana Moe Utah is covered in works of art: beautiful mountain vistas, weather-hewn arches, man-made marvels, and so […]
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Article written by Kerry Hardy I grew up rambling through the fields and forests of mid-coast Maine and it’s been a long-standing hobby of mine to try and understand the many sections of abandoned roads that one encounters in this part of the world. Occasionally I’ll give a slide show on the topic; at one such recent event a fellow […]
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