1. Engineering | Architecture | Design-Build | Surveying | Planning | GeoSpatial Solutions
September 24, 2014
GEOSPATIAL SOLUTIONS
LiDAR Innovations in Transportation Applications
Jamie Young

2. GEOSPATIAL SOLUTIONS
Amberg Mobile and Terrestrial LiDAR Airborne LIDAR Platforms Iphone Camera and Laser LiDAR Software LiDAR Solutions

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Amberg

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Amberg

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Amberg –Track location

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Spike Camera
Measure Street Signs with Iphone, Droid or Ipad
Still testing accuracy
SDK not out yet
Rendering in Sketch Up – coming soon
Measures upto 600 feet away
Still testing this technology

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Mobile and Terrestrial LIDAR

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Mobile LiDAR and Product Generation

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GEOVERSE
Google Earth for LiDAR
Store all projects in Geoverse, Doesn’t matter much data you have
Cut out LAS data files in Geoverse

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Airborne LiDAR
Fixed wing and Helicopter platforms –
500,000 to 1,000,000 per second
Multi-pulse in the air at the same time
Multi-returns
Full wave form
Includes multi-sensors – Weather, Multi- Hyper – Spectral, Thermal, HD video on Gyro stabilized mount
UAV sensors –not yet approved but can be operated other places
And More….!!!!

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SHOT OVER K1 & F1 HD Video

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GEOVERSE

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Data as represented in the next video
LiDAR collection is high resolution
Colorize the LIDAR
Use Orthorectified Imagery as a base layer
Anything that is has elevation is colorized points
Track of visualizing data is stored (this is not a fly through)

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Big Thompson Flood

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Solid Scan LiDAR data
Currently works with Terrestrial scanning only
Next phase will use mobile scanning technology
Final phase is to use Airborne platforms
High resolution LiDAR data is used as the base
Solid scan fills in the voids to render a solid scan
Uses the imagery

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Solid Scan Technology

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Animation –nc3d.com

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Publications
LIDAR for Dummies
ASPRS-LiDAR Manual
American Surveyor
Professional Surveyor
LiDAR News
WiLDER LiDAR Blog – www.bloglidar.com

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Thank You –Questions?