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• Alice Labs’ – Studio Clouds for 3DS Max Plugin

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Click here to view the embedded video. I have been seeing and hearing a lot of positive comments around the Studio Cloud plugin for 3D Studio Max from Alice Labs . Originally designed to work with Maya, it is also now available as a stand alone. One of the key items getting people’s attention is the performance. ...
  2 days ago

• Innovative 3D Laser Scanning Course

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Courses in 3D laser scanning are almost non-existent in either 2 or 4 year college programs in the US. Dr. John Yu and the NSF have created and implemented a valuable model course curriculum. We all need to accept the challenge of making this happen in our local communities. According to Professor John Yu, ...
  3 days ago

• DTMs from Full Wave Form LiDAR

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The Vienna Univ. of Technology is offering a workshop this week about exploiting full waveform data. The course description indicates that the use of full waveform can lead to greater accuracy in processing DTMs. LAS 1.3 was recently approved with the main purpose being to support full waveform data. ...
  4 days ago

• Use of laser guns to catch speeders is questioned

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
  Many motorists nabbed for speeding by a laser gun, instead of radar, are seeing their tickets thrown out at Chicago s traffic court because of a legal issue that the citys law department has been unable to  overcome. Within the last year judges in Cook County Traffic Court in Chicago determined that speeds ...
  5 days ago

• Film School Boot Camp Uses LiDAR

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Lee Stranahan is offering a 3 day Visual Effects Supervisor’s Boot Camp in Santa Fe, NM. The Lidar Guys are going to provide the 3D laser scanning technology. As the consumer market becomes more interested in using LiDAR, the price of scanners is going to decline. Now this is cool. A Visual Effects ...
  5 days ago

• Challenged Chicago Speeding Tickets Get Dismissed

  
  Parking Ticket Geek — Authority: 514
  We dont normally cover speeding tickets or other moving violationson this website, but we certainly are sympathetic to the plight ofmotorists caught in speed traps, etc. But were going t0 make an exception for this one story by Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown Brown revealed in Fridays newspaper , that if you ...
  1 week ago

• Laser Scan Point Cloud Animations

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Click here to view the embedded video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTJLwPtEwmY&feature=player_embedded I think we can all agree that point cloud animations can really create excitement and interest, especially if done well. The trick is knowing how to do that without going over the client’s budget. Well ...
  1 week ago

• 64 Bit Lidar Point Cloud Processing on the Mac

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Ray Mandli shared the details of his high production, 64 Bit Mac architecture. Ray has built a very successful mobile mapping firm that is using High Definition LiDAR. They recently processed a 3 trillion, with a T, point job. I wanted to be sure that everyone saw the following comment from Ray Mandli, the ...
  1 week ago

• Laser Scanners are a 3D Camera

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  A multimedia firm that adopted laser scanning sees it as a 3D camera. A Korean firm became a national hero for having a detailed scan of the country’s most treasured landmark. 3D property management is a potential market for laser scanning. Replacing modules in a deformed offshore oil platform can only be ...
  1 week ago

• Airborne LIDAR-based mapping

  
  GIS in Education — Authority: 134
  Aerotec introduced its second-generation airborne LIDAR-based mapping product for identifying and locating vegetation in the vicinity of electric power transmission rights-of-way that presents a significant risk to the operation of the transmission line conductors. A featured component of the vegetation management ...
  1 week ago

• USGS Announces LiDAR Funding Availability

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The USGS is going to award 15 grants up to $500k for high res elevation and orthoimagery data. This will eventually be supplied to the public as part of the National Map. The private sector and federal agencies are not eligible. The deadline is December 1, 2009. The USGS announced last week that they intend to ...
  1 week ago

• Immersive LiDAR-based Racing Experience

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Real Time Race is developing a product that will put gamers in their own car racing against the pros during a live race. I believe they are using the Velodyne 64E to do the scanning. Negotiations are in progress to launch the service in 2010. This is going to be HUGE. I think I have noted this in the past – I ...
  1 week ago

• Leica UC Wrap Up and Revit PC Feature

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The last day was as good as the first. Word from the feedback session was the majority of the requests were software related. Dr. Hesse is using a phase based scanner turned on its side in 2D mode to record structure deformations in real time under dynamic loads. They are using scanning and other remote sensing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Opportunity in Times of Change

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  This was really the theme of the first day at the Leica UC – there is opportunity out there if you are willing to make it happen. Construction applications were prominent on the first day. The challenge is to push the technology down to the smaller projects in order to open up the mass market. That was the ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Impressions of the Leica UC and Autodesk Follow Up

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The meet and greet was well attended, as it appears the conference will be, and people seemed upbeat. It sounds like people are finding new ways to innovate with the technology which has Leica seeing a flat year – quite an accomplishment. I have provided additional info on the AutoCAD point cloud feature. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hands-free Driving [Flickr]

  
  The J Curve — Authority: 130
  jurvetson posted a photo: The car drives itself. The passengers are being chauffeured by computer. Seen at the VAIL autonomous driving and parking demonstration at Stanford this weekend. Here’s a short video of this VW parking itself. The roof if festooned with spinning LIDAR and cameras, feeding into ...
  2 weeks ago

• Autodesk Announces Support for Point Clouds

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  Autodesk just announced the release of their point cloud feature. It will only be available to Map 3D and Civil 3D customers via the subscription center. Now that Autodesk is in the game it will be interesting to track how this progresses. For the second week in a row there is BIG news from a CAD vendor. On ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2009 Leica HDS User Conference Preview

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  I will be attending the conference which begins Sunday and runs through Thursday in San Ramon CA. Geoff Jacobs organizes one of the best events of the year. I will attempt to report on the important announcements and presentations. I will be attending the Leica User Conference, which starts on Sunday, October ...
  3 weeks ago

• 3D Printing and AEC

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The Z Corporation recently announced the world’s first monochrome 3D printer. At $25,900 this is an investment that every design office, including the AEC world should consider. Regardless of the advances in 3D computer graphics, there is still no substitute for a physical 3D model. I saw an announcement from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Open Source and 64 Bit Feedback

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  A number of valuable comments were recieved from those who are already using 64 bit technology. Performance is outstanding and ROI appears high, especially if you go with GRASS and Linux since these are free. Looks like pressure is needed to move the big players, but QT Modeler is already there. There were a ...
  3 weeks ago

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