The Hollywood Sign Trust Continues Celebration Of The Sign’s Centennial Year With An Historic First The Hollywood Sign Trust Partners with Apex As-Builts to Establish A Precise Historic Record of the Signs Dimensions That Will Also Be Used to Support the New Visitor Center with Digital Experiences LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — In the Hollywood Sign’s historic 100th year, the Hollywood […]
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3D Laser Scanning Historical Caves LiDAR News recently had the opportunity to interview David Bodo on his firm’s investment in and use of 3D laser scanning on some challenging project environments. Can you please provide a brief overview of your professional background and experience with 3D laser scanning/LiDAR technology, as well as a brief history of the growth of your […]
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Laser scanning technology helps preserve and repurpose a historic masonry building in Crete Postgraduate students at the Technical University of Crete used a combination of a Trimble Laser Scanner, PointCab Origins Pro, and Autocad to obtain and document the exact geometry of a historic masonry structure with the purpose of its structural rehabilitation. The island of Crete, Greece is known […]
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Bluesky National Tree Map Helps Dudley Council Keep Black Country Green Leicestershire, 11 January 2023 – A unique map database from Bluesky International is helping Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council inform research and development projects, engage with stakeholders and ensure the historic capital of the Black Country is as green as possible. Dudley was the first Council in the West Midlands […]
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House of Wonders Documented by Zamani Team On the 25th of December 2020, the front of the iconic House of Wonders (Beit-al-Ajaib) in Stone Town, Zanzibar, partially collapsed resulting in the tragic loss of life and the destruction of its North-West corner. The building was under restoration after an earlier collapse. The building is a central component of the UNESCO […]
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Using Remote Sensing to Protect Historic Buildings In Urban Construction Zones Part Ii – Maximizing The Value Of The Data In Part I we outlined the research performed in Dublin, Ireland and Brooklyn, NY using hyper-spectral scanning to help old urban cities protect historically significant buildings during construction. To view Part I as a PDF, click here: Using Remote Sensing to […]
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Vueron takes AV on 257 mile fully automated historic highway drive with one LiDAR sensor The Challenge…. Long distance highway drive using only 1 LiDAR for complete control of AV Renowned for its cutting-edge LiDAR perception software technology, Vueron Technology received one of the few self-driving permits issued by the South Korean government in January of this year. Following receipt of […]
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GEOSLAM MAPS ST. ELISABETH HOSPITAL AHEAD OF HISTORIC RESTORATION The historic St. Elisabeth Hospital, situated on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, has been digitally re-imagined in 3D by global geospatial technology specialists, GeoSLAM, ahead of its planned restoration works. Constructed in 1855, the St. Elisabeth Hospital was once the main centre for medical care in the Otrobanda City district in Curaçao, […]
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Leicestershire, UK, 24 September 2020 – Aircraft mounted lasers are helping to reveal the rich archaeology within Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Captured by aerial mapping company Bluesky, the highly accurate LiDAR data will be used by the Chase and Chalke Landscape Partnership to reveal previously unknown archaeology. Analysis of the Bluesky terrain mapping will inform ground truthing of potential […]
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(Southlake, Texas; December 4, 2019) — It roamed Texas long before the first dinosaurs. Growing to 12 feet in length, with powerful jaws and specialized teeth for stabbing and tearing apart its prey, it was not a creature you’d want to encounter while on a Saturday morning hike. “It” was Dimetrodon limbatus and a fossilized skeleton of the Paleozoic predator was recently scanned by NVision […]
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USIBD Members Describe Building Documentation’s Critical Role in the Rebuilding Notre Dame Tustin, California – April 21, 2018 – Members of the U.S. Institute of Building Documentation (USIBD) have been lending their perspective about the role of Building Documentation in the rebuilding of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris from the recent devastating fire. USIBD’s president John M. Russo, AIA […]
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Great news, DigiDoc is back for 2018. Aimed at industry professionals and academics, our three-day conference is taking place at the Engine Shed (www.engineshed.scot) in Stirling, Scotland between 10 and 12 October 2018. We’ll be joined by a range of speakers from across the globe to showcase the very latest innovation in digital documentation and visualisation. Full info here: https://www.engineshed.scot/digifest-2018/digidoc/ […]
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Historic Livermore winery building lives on in a 3D point cloud By Jeff Winke Livermore, California has a famous light…or more precisely, a lightbulb. For more than a century now the 4-watt light bulb, called the Centennial Light, has been burning since it was first clicked on in 1901. Housed in the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department Station #6, it glows dimly, […]
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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 […]
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MAPPING THE PAST TO SAFEGUARD THE FUTURE Geospatial technology supplier, 3D Laser Mapping, recently released a detailed 3D map of Newark Castle in Nottinghamshire, UK. Here, business development director Mark Brown tells LiDAR News about the project and explains why the mapping of heritage sites is crucial. Last month marked the 800th anniversary of the death of ‘Bad King John’. […]
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