USF and Phoenix Lidar: Building the Future of LiDAR Education and Smart City Planning Lidar News readers are interested in how innovators are leveraging Phoenix LiDAR 3D technologies to solve a wide variety of problems, educate students and support academic research. Lidar News Founder Gene Roe has provided the following interview questions to Dr. Laura Harrison, Founding Director of Access […]
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Introducing Pointly’s New Mobile Mapping Classifier for City Inventories As cities continue to evolve, the need for advanced digital representations becomes increasingly important for urban planning and development. Taking this into account, Pointly has introduced a new Mobile Mapping Classifier designed to transform the detection and classification of city objects. This is Pointly Pointly is an intelligent, cloud-based software solution […]
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Bluesky MetroVista 3D City Model Underpins Nottingham’s Digital Twin Leicestershire, UK, 07 August 2023 – Nottingham City Council is a step closer to achieving its vision of creating a digital twin for the city. In what’s believed to be a UK first they are combining the intricate, rich MetroVista 3D mesh with existing photogrammetric 3D modelling within the same application. […]
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Immersal Oy launches Immersal City-Scale Visual Positioning System The new 5G-enabled smart city Visual Positioning System offers unmatched accuracy and new business opportunities for mobile network operators and their customers (Helsinki, Finland & Barcelona, Spain, 27 February 2023) Immersal Oy, part of Hexagon, announced today at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, the launch of Immersal City-Scale, a Visual Positioning System […]
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CCCC Water Transportation Implements BIM Processes to Establish New Digital City Bentley Software Helps Project Team Create Digital Twin, Saving Substantial Costs BIM Processes Implemented to Deliver Digital City CCCC Water Transportation Consultants Co., Ltd. is ranked 91st on the Fortune 500 listing of top companies and is third on the ENR top design firms. The engineering, procurement, and construction […]
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LiDAR technology confirms the existence of a “Lost City” in the Brazilian Amazon APIACÁS, Brazil, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Brazilian Amazon may be the cradle of the oldest city in the world.The mapping analysis performed by LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) technology in Apiacás/MT indicates it. The laser scanning is performed by an airplane, the technology uses pulses of laser that can […]
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Bluesky Adds Scottish Cities to MetroVista 3D City Line-up Leicestershire, UK, 24 February 2022 – Aerial mapping company Bluesky International has added Edinburgh and Glasgow to its growing coverage of MetroVista 3D city models. Acquired using a state-of-the-art aerial sensor that simultaneously captures vertical and oblique imagery together with high point density LiDAR, MetroVista data is becoming increasingly popular for […]
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Bluesky Cyclomedia Partnership Combines Aerial and Mobile Mapped Data for Virtual City Models Leicestershire, 25 August 2021 – Aerial mapping company Bluesky International is working with the Dutch mobile mapping specialist Cyclomedia to bring together imagery and height data, captured from the air and at street level, to fuel a growing demand for virtual city applications in the UK. Cyclomedia […]
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Texan city to deploy intelligent traffic system from Velodyne Lidar The pilot program will use lidar to monitor traffic at a dangerous intersection. American roads have never been especially safe compared to those in other countries. But the pandemic made things worse, with shocking rises in crashes and deaths of both drivers and pedestrians in 2020 despite a decrease in the number of miles Americans […]
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Velodyne Announces a Multi-Year Sales Agreement to Improve Traffic Safety and Efficiency July 17, 2020 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced a multi-year sales agreement with Blue City Technology, developer of a Smart City system for traffic monitoring. The Blue City Technology solution, equipped with Velodyne’s lidar sensors, helps improve road safety and mobility by […]
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Cityscape and Bluesky MetroVista 3D Models Bring Virtual Reality to the Property Sector Leicestershire, UK, 16 June 2020 – Cityscape Digital is using photorealistic 3D mesh models from aerial mapping company Bluesky to create live, interactive 3D environments to illustrate proposed city developments. A specialist in computer-generated imagery (CGI) solutions for the property sector, Cityscape has already created a number […]
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Advanced INS Set-Up for Challenging GNSS Urban EnvironmentsUsing an INS in challenging urban environments can prove difficult but there are ways to ensure your results aren’t impacted. Here we explain… Using an Inertial Navigation System in a difficult environment, such as an urban canyon, can be a challenge. However, there are a number of ways to ensure you’re getting the best […]
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Bentley Systems Sponsors the Annual Competition, which Challenges Middle School Students to Design a Future City and Overcome Engineering Challenges WASHINGTON – March 19, 2020 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, and DiscoverE, a network of volunteers that introduces students, parents, and educators to engineering […]
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