As Dustin Price, Operations Manager at Landpoint explains in this guest blog post collecting the aerial lidar scans is just the first step in the surveying process. A survey is about more than just scanning: it’s also about data processing and data management. Your survey isn’t over once your aerial LiDAR scans have been completed. In fact, it’s after the […]
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Thomas J. Elmore began his formal education by earning an Associates degree from Colombia-Greene Community College, while living in my hometown of Catskill, NY. As they say, it’s a small world. After going on to earn his BS and MS in Landscape Architecture and 3D Historic Preservation, Thomas J. Elmore began Elmore Design Collaborative, LLC, Historical Landscape Architecture, in 1999. […]
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A seminal, technical white paper, written by industry veteran and expert Brent Gelhar, providing an in-depth look into the physics of lidar technology from the beginning to where we might be going in the future. I have been an amateur musician since I was in high school which was admittedly a long time ago. I decided on taking the path […]
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Conserving the Sigiriya Frescoes in Sri Lanka is being aided by the use of 3D laser scanning with the assistance of the Central Cultural Fund. The Sigiriya Frescoes were painted on the western surface of Sigiriya Rock which is located in the Matale District of central Sri Lanka. They were the highlight of a massive palace complex built in 480AD […]
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I met Andrew Evans, Product Manager at Topcon who offered this blog post on Scanning for Construction, plus a look at the GLS 2000 scanner with its ability to set up over a point and find a target for a backsight, meaning you can know the coordinates of the instrument, as well as the instrument height. The role of the […]
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Day in and day out reality capture solutions seem to be appearing out of thin air with solutions pushing the level of accuracy into tighter tolerances while at the same time a newer breed of less accurate solutions are emerging at considerably less cost. Tony Sabat borrows the concept of minimum effective dose from the medical industry to explain an […]
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Eco3d has been selected by Structured Real Estate Partners to provide 2D and 3D deliverables as solutions for an adaptive reuse renovation of a Scottsdale church. The structure, called Meetinghouse at 3080, will be converted into commercial office and retail space, according to a press release. Eco3d is a portfolio company of Ecoark Holdings, Inc. that measures existing topographic, structural, […]
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In the last decade, the evolution in computing power – both in CPUs and GPUs – has allowed the development of photogrammetry software that can turn a set of photos of an object, such as a building, into a 3D model. These software products compete with laser scanners, which are widely used throughout design, construction, and operations of infrastructure assets […]
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Location: Lexington, Kentucky Task: Laser Scan the interior of approximately 17,000 SF of Hospital Kitchen to capture all exposed MEP and conduct a floor fill analysis. The contractor and architect also wanted to see where installed systems aligned with their proposed model. Challenge: The client was going to build a Kitchen in a basement of the hospital. Before they continued […]
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Test Calling all laser scanning service providers out there!! Test time! I need you to answer the following question—and please answer honestly since nobody is going to grade your paper: What are you selling? Naw, I don’t mean the aerial mapping, laser scanning, modeling, BIM, etc.; I am asking a simple question that everyone on your team should be able […]
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