THE HISTORY This mapping story begins with a small company that was dominating the scanning market some 15 years ago, but it wasn’t the 3D laser scanning market – it was the scanning of large format aerial film. In those days digital cameras were just coming onto the scene and established aerial mapping companies were still looking to recover their […]
Read more
In the world of airborne lidar and remote sensing, there is a lot happening these days. The most prolific topics over the past 5 years have been with respect to the explosion of UAV and UAS technology. Most recently, we have seen much discussion on new lidar sensors employing Geiger Mode and Single Photon technologies pushing the limits of the […]
Read more
Author: John M. Russo, AIA If you haven’t noticed there are a lot more people jumping into the laser scanning business lately. Perhaps this is due to scanner prices dropping, or maybe it’s because the software is making it easier to process the data. Maybe the growth of the market is just creating a lot of opportunity. Many of the […]
Read more
Author: Kutalmis Saylam, Research Scientist Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin In July 2014, the Bureau of Economic Geology, a research unit at The University of Texas at Austin, was contracted to conduct an airborne survey in the Alaskan North Slope. The purpose of the project was to further determine, understand, and map the local […]
Read more
Thanks to Dr. Michael Olsen at Oregon State University for the following recap of last week’s ISPRS Geospatial week held in France. Some guys have all the luck. Bonjour! This week I had the privilege of attending the ISPRS Geospatial Week held in La Grande Motte, France and will provide you with a short overview. Basically, the ISPRS Geospatial Week […]
Read more Ken Smerz interviewed Ted Mort to get his thoughts on last week’s USIBD 2015 conference in Las Vegas. So…. What were your expectations going into the event? My only expectation was that the attendees would receive tangible value, it was our number one goal for the event. What we didn’t realize was just how much support and interest we were […]
Read more
Our world of 3D imaging frequently takes us to amazingly interesting places to scan amazingly interesting things. Often our interest level alone drives us to go out and scan. Having learned in the local news about a major maintenance project underway for the famous USS Constellation and her equally historic cousin, the submarine USS Torsk, Direct Dimensions’ president Michael Raphael […]
Read more
(Thanks to Dr. Kamel Saidi at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (www.nist.gov) for the following summary of the work that was done to develop a first-of-its-kind standard test for laser scanners.) The ASTM E57.02 sub-committee on Test Methods for 3D Imaging Systems has recently published the first standard for time-of-flight, spherical coordinate laser scanners. These instruments measure a […]
Read more
(This article is based on a peer reviewed paper written by I. Toschi, et al) Mobile Mapping System (MMS) is nowadays an emerging technology, whose development began in the late 1980s and is constantly growing. From a technological point of view, MMS is a multi-sensor system, that consists mainly of three components: mapping sensors (active and/or passive 3D imaging systems), […]
Read more
Construction companies need accurate measurements and want them fast. Over the past 10 to 20 years, hardware and software engineers have been hard at work developing tools to suit these needs. 3D laser scanning has emerged as a tool and process that meets industry standards. Through a combination of hardware, software, and methodology, 3D laser scanning now allows us to […]
Read more
Asco Co. Ltd. is a general construction consultant based in Osaka and has been a pioneer of cutting edge 3D surveying technologies, including Laser Mobile Mapping. Last October, at Intergeo 2014, Mr. Masato Banjo, the CEO of Asco and their technical team were impressed by the Road-Scanner mobile mapping system. ASCO began analyzing the system features and collecting sample data. […]
Read more
Huntsville, AL – AirGon LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of GeoCue Group Inc., has been granted a section 333 exemption by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its AV-900 Metric Mapping system. Under the exemption, AirGon will be permitted to conduct precision aerial mapping missions and demonstrations throughout the United States. The AV-900 Metric Mapping Kit is a small Unmanned […]
Read more