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Hovermap: Powerful SLAM for Drone Autonomy and Lidar Mapping
Hovermap is a new UAV payload from DATA61 and CSIRO that brings advanced autonomy, SLAM-based mapping, omnidirectional collision avoidance, and GPS-denied flight to drones. Though Hovermap was designed...
View ArticleHow An NYU Professor Captured the Densest-Ever Public Aerial Lidar Data
Recently professor Debra F. Laefer, with NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress–released what the center is calling the world’s densest urban aerial lidar data set. Here’s how it was described in...
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BloomCE: A Design App Promising a Better Take on the Point Cloud
The directors of Bloom Technologies, Dan Arnold and Anu Rastogi, believe 3D scanning is lagging behind. They say that if you look at a typical terrestrial laser scanner, you’ll see that the electrical...
View ArticleWhy Underground Mapping Matters, and How It’s Improving
I was immensely–and very happily–surprised at the Geo Business 2016 conference in London when I spotted a towable combined above ground/below ground scanner on the street outside the conference. This...
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Underground 3D utility mapping: A vision for the future
This blog posts continues last week’s exploration of underground utility mapping, and why it’s important. This week, we look into the present state-of-the-art technology for detecting underground...
View ArticleContextCapture: Now with QR support, faster processing, volume calculation,...
Since their original releases, Bentley has continued making incremental improvements to its ContextCapture photogrammetry solution and the ContextCapture Editor. As of today, the software includes...
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+WINGS turns ROBIN ultra-mobile lidar into airborne mapping system
With the latest add-on for the ROBIN 3-in-1 lidar system, it looks even more like the Swiss Army knife of the scanning world. 3D Laser Mapping designed ROBIN as a fully integrated lidar-scanning...
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New from Trimble: Google deep learning tech & point cloud sharing
Trimble is at Intergeo 2017 with a wide range of new products, but it may be two software updates that get most of the coverage. Clarity: Point Cloud Sharing The first is Clarity, a new cloud-based...
View ArticleRIEGL VZ-2000i auto-registers data in real-time, compatible with custom apps
In Berlin this year, RIEGL announced a number of products, including a new RiCopter and a version of their miniVUX-1UAV lidar that looks down for better corridor mapping. The company was also showing...
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Two highlights from Intergeo 2017: Improved data accessibility + sensors with...
I have now returned home from attending Intergeo in Berlin. I must admit that, with many of our industry’s vendors having announced new hardware in 2016, this year may have felt a little flat in terms...
View Article3D Target’s SCANFLY lidar mounts on any kind of vehicle
3D Target’s lidar sensor SCANFLY has gotten a redesign, which includes a new layout, more resources, new features, and increased storage capability. Initially developed to provide 3D laser-mapping...
View ArticleAutomotive lidar maker Cepton debuts UAV sensor
Cepton, a company best known for selling low-cost automotive- and industrial-grade lidar sensors direct to consumers, has announced the launch of a sensor designed specifically for use with UAVs. The...
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There was no big reality modeling story at Bentley YII2017, and that’s a good...
At YII2017 in Singapore, Bentley made a number of announcements about their portfolio of products–as usual. But the big news was that there was no big reality modeling news. Back up, let me explain: No...
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Structure Reports uses iPhone to capture 3D building models
URC Ventures’ Stockpile Reports is notable for a number of reasons, but perhaps chief among those reasons is offering a smartphone app for performing accurate in-field measurement of stockpiles and...
View ArticleLeica’s new P50 hits a range of more than 1 km
This week, Leica announced the release of a new ScanStation. The P50 combines the functionality of the P40 with a dramatically longer scan range, which Leica rates at more than 1 km. The device gathers...
View ArticleAutodesk & Esri partner to integrate BIM & GIS
Attend a conference about AEC or infrastructure and you’ll hear a lot of talk about connecting BIM and GIS. It makes sense that this would be high on the industry’s want list: Every structure is...
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What the Autodesk & Esri partnership means for BIM, GIS
This month, Autodesk and Esri announced a new partnership at Autodesk University in Las Vegas. During the Autodesk Technology keynote the heads of both companies, Andrew Anagnost and Jack Dangermond,...
View ArticlePointfuse for DotProduct launches with free trial, low-cost offer
At INTERGEO back in October, Arithmetica and DotProduct announced they were working to put Pointfuse, an automatic modeling application for point clouds, on DotProduct’s line of handheld scanners. Last...
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UK’s National Grid testing lidar to move gas pipeline inspection into the future
National Grid, the sole owner and operator of gas transmission infrastructure in the UK, has undertaken a trial program to test lidar inspections for their gas network—a UK first. Funding is from the...
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mdLiDAR1000: taking the fully integrated drone lidar solution to the next level
SPONSORED BY MICRODRONES Drone solutions have an integration problem. “Over the past year,” Microdrones president Vivien Heriard-Debreuil said, “we saw laser sensors, airframes, and software released,...
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