
FDOT is encouraging the use of mobile lidar and in some districts is including the point cloud data in the design packages that are going out to bid. This is certainly a step in the right direction and hopefully a preview of things to come.

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For decades, lidar has been extraordinarily good at answering one question: where is it in three-dimensional space? A pulse of laser light leaves a sensor, strikes a surface and returns. Measure the time between those events precisely enough and the result is an accurate three-dimensional representation of terrain, vegetation, buildings and infrastructure. But today, researchers…
Sixteen wavelengths in an open excavation Researchers from Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum have developed a multispectral imaging rig that uncovers hidden stratification directly inside active excavation trenches. The prototype illuminates vertical soil sections using sixteen distinct narrow-band light-emitting diode wavelengths, sweeping sequentially from near-ultraviolet through visible bands to near-infrared. Rather than relying on broadband…