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• The Intersection of Laser Scanning and BIM

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Beck Technology is a double GSA IDIQ award winner landing $60 million for BIM and laser scanning. Their mission is to revolutionize the AEC industry. They have a software product that enables integrated project delivery – IPD. I noticed that Beck Technology, Ltd. , based in Dallas, TX was a double GSA IDIQ ...
  21 hours ago

• All I Want for Christmas is a Laser Scanner

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The DAVID 3D Laserscanner is a low cost, build it yourself option. For approximately $500 (USD) you can purchase the starter kit. DAVID Vision Systems is making their presence known - worldwide. For those of us who can’t afford to spend the $50k (USD) and up, there is an alternative. It’s the DAVID 3D ...
  1 day ago

• Laser Scanning Research Funded in Defense Spending Bill

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The U.S. Senate passed a $636 billion appropriations bill Saturday which included an earmark to fund a laser scanning research project. This is good news for NVision , the State of Michigan and the industry. It appears that NVision, a company focused on the short range reverse engineering market will recieve $2 ...
  2 days ago

• SPAR 2010 Early Bird Discount Ending Today

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Today is the last day to register for SPAR 2010 at the current price. After today there will be a $100 increase. Also worth noting is the fact that the third person attending from the same company gets a 50% discount. Finally there is a mentoring program for interns and new hires – within 6 months, which provides ...
  5 days ago

• LiDAR-Based Software Announced in Copenhagen

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The Carnegie Institution for Science has developed an easy to use satellite imaging software called CLASlite. It is being combined with LIDAR data to quantify the environmental impact of tropical forest destruction. Carnegie is working with the UN to reach out to organizations around the world and train them in the ...
  1 week ago

• Low Cost 2D Mobile Mapping System

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Oxford Technical Systems has designed a low cost 2D mobile mapping system. If you can live with 10 – 15 cm then this could be worth investigating. Alignment of the scanner and GPS/IMU is critical. Oxford Technical Solutions – OXTS , has announced a low cost approach to building a mobile mapping system using ...
  1 week ago

• National Open Topographic LIDAR Facility Gets $1.7 Million

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The NSF has awarded $1.7 million to SDSC and ASU for the creation of an online LIDAR data website. The goal is to make access to LIDAR data much easier for end users. This is a similar mission to the USGS CLICK site and I hope the 2 groups will work together. The US National Science Foundation, NSF has awarded ...
  1 week ago

• Merrick Announces New Release of MARS

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  If you are looking for production grade LiDAR data processing software the new release of Merrick’s MARS product is worth your time to investigate. Version 6 has just been released, and I asked an early supporter of this blog, Bill Emison, the Product Manager for the highlights: Visualize & process airborne, ...
  1 week ago

• SPAR 2010 – Mobile Mapping Showcase

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Mobile mapping is the hot platform. SPAR 2010 has 7 of the leading mobile mapping vendors signed up to demo their rigs. The ROI for SPAR 2010 is going to be very high. I think it is fair to say that mobile mapping is the hottest laser scanning technology platform on the market. If you want to be at the center of ...
  1 week ago

• Canada’s most sophisticated dimensional measurement centre

  
  Pro Press Release — Authority: 143
  Canadian measurement metrology’s high technology Centre in Ayr Ontario (near Cambridge) has been open now for two years, providing our customers with high-technology solutions for complex measurement and reverse engineering problems.In the last two years we added many new high-technology pieces of equipment to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Revit and Point Clouds

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  A 15 acre culturally significant site in Saudi Arabia included the ruins of a number of mud buildings. Scanning was the only practical method for capturing the as found condition. Much to the surprise of many AU attendees the firm was able to come up with a workflow that eventually loaded the point clouds into Revit. ...
  2 weeks ago

• LiDAR Images and The Power of Visualization

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  I think those of us in the industry tend to take for granted the power of visualization. It is in all of our best interests to spread the use of LiDAR imagery to those who are not part of the 3D laser scanning community. Take the quiz to see if you can guess what the line in the image represents. I think we often ...
  2 weeks ago

• Modeling a Simulated Prison Riot with Laser Scanning

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Teams from 28 states and 14 countries participated in a mock prison riot training exercise in West Virginia this past spring. Valador, a company specializing in using their gaming engine to create real world training simulations was hired to develop a realistic 3D digital environment. They hired GKS to capture the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Point Clouds Highlighted on AU Mainstage

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Jeff Kowalski, CTO at Autodesk included a point cloud animation in his presentation. This can be seen via Autodesk University Virtual – a bit of a gamble on the part of Autodesk. The reference to automated feature extraction caught my attention. Jeff Kowalski, CTO at Autodesk had a number of positive comments ...
  3 weeks ago

• LiDAR Wind Profiler for NextGen Aeroportal

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Masstech is proposing to develop a 3D wind profiler using a multi-beam LiDAR system. It is the velocity of the aerosol particles that will be measured. This is part of a multi-agency project to improve safety at the nation’s airports. I came across the summary page for a NASA Small Business Innovation ...
  3 weeks ago

• Laser Scanning, Crime Scenes and Video Gaming

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The NSF recently awarded $1.4 million for the development of a crime scene reconstruction platform. This platform will support the use of laser scanned data using a popular video gaming engine to create compelling animations of the actual crime timeline. The company – 3rdTech is an incubator for commercializing ...
  3 weeks ago

• OPALS – Orientation and Processing of Airborne Laser Scanning Data

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  OPALS has the ability to process full-waveform aerial LiDAR data. This is going to become more important as we automate the process of extracting features. Thanks to all for your support and especially to Michael Raphael from Direct Dimensions for his kind words. I guess that adding the “D” for data to the ...
  4 weeks ago

• USGS-NGP Base LiDAR Specification

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The USGS NGP has just released an updated version of their Base LiDAR Specification. The intent is to insure that the data being collected is suitable for inclusion in the National Elevation Dataset and CLICK. This document is an important reference for all aerial LiDAR projects. The U.S. Geological Survey ...
  4 weeks ago

• Top Six Land Surveying Surveys

  
  The Net News 247 Blog — Authority: 130
  Land surveying is often outlined as the proficiency of marking the planetary or 3D space placement of points and the lengths and angles between them. Surveying has been an primary factor in the growth of the human surroundings since the outset of recorded history (about 5000 years ago) and it is a essential in ...
  4 weeks ago

• What Types of Surveys Can a Land Surveyor Carry out?

  
  Flooto.com Blog — Authority: 131
  Land surveying is often well-defined as the proficiency of marking the planetary or 3D space positioning of points and the spaces and angles between them. Surveying has long been an necessary factor in the growth of the human surroundings since the outset of recorded history (close to 5000 years ago) and it is a ...
  4 weeks ago

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