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Low and Slow: Helicopter-based Lidar for Snow & Ice Observations

October 17, 2023 2 comments

Adam LeWinter – Research Physical Scientist and Lidar Team Lead US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research & Development CenterCold Regions Research & Engineering LaboratoryRemote Sensing & GIS Center of Expertise72 Lyme RdHanover, NH 03755 Where there are glaciers and deep, persistent snow, you’ll almost always find equally impressive topography: high-relief mountainous terrain, glacial carved valleys, dense forest. Navigating and […]

Bret Bienkowski of Tetra Tech provides valuable insights

July 7, 2023 One comment

Lidar News recently had the opportunity to interview Bret Bienkowski, LSIT at Tetra Tech. Bret is their Mobile Mapping Survey Manager. He provided his valuable insights on their use of 3D laser scanning and mobile lidar. Can you please provide a brief overview of your professional background and experience with 3D laser scanning/lidar technology, as well as a brief […]

Neural Networks for Field Boundaries Detection

April 29, 2023 Leave a comment

Using Neural Networks for Field Boundaries Detection Today, agriculture faces many challenges, many of which are related to climate change. At the same time, the industry has a severe impact on the climate and the environment, as it is a source of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Innovative technologies, including geospatial data analytics are helping to develop solutions that reduce […]

Autonomous Solutions – Industrial + E-Commerce Robotics

September 1, 2021 Leave a comment

Velodyne Lidar and MOV.AI Partner to Provide Autonomous Solutions for Industrial and E-Commerce Robotics SAN JOSE, Calif. & TEL AVIV, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) and MOV.AI today announced the companies are collaborating to provide robot manufacturers with enterprise-grade automation solutions, including mapping, navigation, obstacle avoidance and risk avoidance. The MOV.AI Robotics Engine PlatformTM, combined with Velodyne’s lidar sensors, addresses the […]

CEO Brandon Torres Declet Appointed to FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee

February 17, 2021 Leave a comment

CEO Brandon Torres Declet Appointed to FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee Measure CEO and Co-founder Brandon Torres Declet was featured in a Yahoo!Finance News article first published on January 6, 2021. WASHINGTON and AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — MEASURE, a leading aerial intelligence company, and U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao, announced Brandon Torres Declet, CEO and Co-Founder of MEASURE has been appointed to the […]

BATHYMETRY OF SHALLOW WATERS paper WINS best of 2019!

April 23, 2020 Leave a comment

JOINT SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE ON LIDAR FOR BATHYMETRY OF VERY SHALLOW WATERS, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF RIEGL, WINS ISPRS BEST PAPER OF 2019! Every year the ISPRS (International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) chooses the Best Paper of the Year from the wide range of publications in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. For 2019, this award goes to the […]

Raising the Roof

May 15, 2018 Leave a comment

Turner Construction Utilize GeoSLAM’s ZEB-REVO for Hard-to-Reach Ceiling Void Surveys When Turner Construction needed to carry out a revamp and extension of their Atlanta office, they took the unique opportunity to test-drive some revolutionary technology. Traditional laser scanning technologies are great for certain applications, but for hard-to-reach, overhead or ‘feature dense’ spaces, a new type of solution was called for. […]

VRMesh Case Study – Volume Calculation Between Two Scans

April 11, 2018 2 comments

Introduction The goal of this case study is to discover the comprehensive workflow VRMesh provides for 3D point cloud and mesh processing. Many users tell us it is always a big challenge when they get billions of points and need to measure the volume between two surfaces. Generally, they have to use more than one software program to finish the […]

RIEGL Helps Sam O. Hirota Develop Competitive Advantage

November 16, 2017 Leave a comment

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 […]

Travel Channel Episode – The Lost Colony of Roanoke

October 22, 2017 Leave a comment

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 […]

The 3D Elevation Program— Landslide Recognition, Hazard Assessment, and Mitigation Support

September 11, 2017 Leave a comment

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, […]

Investing in Airborne LiDAR

August 8, 2017 One comment

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 […]

Mapping The Battle of Gettysburg

July 21, 2017 Leave a comment

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 […]

Laser Scanning to Revit: As-Built Case Study

July 6, 2017 3 comments

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 […]

Laser Scanning for Heritage Conservation – Bagan, Myanmar

July 1, 2017 Leave a comment

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 […]

Open Source Point Cloud Web Services with Greyhound

June 13, 2017 One comment

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 […]

LiDAR to Perpetuate Beauty – Scanning the Sun Tunnels and The Tree of Utah

December 21, 2016 5 comments

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 […]

SITECO partners with FARO to launch…

October 26, 2016 Leave a comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SITECO partners with FARO to launch the new “road-scanner compact” with FARO laser scanners 26 October, 2016, Bologna, Italy – SITECO Infomatica SRL announces an extended partnership with FARO® (NASDAQ: FARO), the producer of the revolutionary and most popular Focus laser-scanner. This extended partnership will bring the Road-Scanner Compact equipped with FARO Focus Laser Scanners worldwide. The new […]