From The Editor: Are You a Systematic Thinker?
Welcome to the ASPRS 2012 edition of LiDAR Magazine, which is now available in both print and online. Thanks to our hard working team and to you for your ongoing support and interest. We have an outstanding selection of articles in this edition of LiDAR Magazine. From BIM to interior and exterior mobile scanning ....
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The Virtual Japanese American Confinement Sites Project
Shortly following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which would affect all people of Japanese ancestry living on the Pacific Coast. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 resulted in the forced removal of over 110,000 Japanese ....
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Changing the Face of Quarry Management
Large-scale mining operations across the globe have become development and test sites for advanced positioning technology. Think of a mine or quarry site as a 50-year construction project on a very large scale. What is economically or chronologically unfeasible for the typical earthwork construction site can be deployed at a ....
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The Challenges and Benefits of Implementing BIM during Construction
Imagine discovering and documenting existing building conditions with a degree of accuracy that eliminates the surprise of unknown conditions that so often result in costly change orders and construction delays. Now consider being able to virtually construct a building and resolve the design coordination issues before ....
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The Secret to Managing High Volumes of LiDAR Data
Being able to fully manage terabytes of LiDAR data is one of the biggest challenges that organizations working with geospatial data face today. The value of point cloud data is tremendous and the availability of sensors to capture that data increases along with the consumer market's understanding of how to use the data to....
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Avoid Incidents with Incidence
When collecting or using LIDAR data, the location of the scanner/sensor relative to the object of interest and the geometry of the object itself can influence the ability to receive returns from laser pulses. These factors can also affect the resulting accuracies of the acquired points. This concept has important implications ....
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Lidar Unlocks Subterranean Philadelphia
Center City in Philadelphia is a confluence of transportation, shopping, business and government agency activity, with several multi-level spaces (including underground) within a few blocks. The fifth biggest region in the nation, Center City also boasts the third-largest downtown population. The City of Philadelphia is committed to ....
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The Sky Is No Longer The Limit—UltraCam User Group Meeting
We used to say, "The sky's the limit." But boundaries continue to be pushed. Following the International LiDAR Mapping Forum held in January in Denver, I drove to Boulder to attend the Microsoft UltraCam User Conference. Held in Microsoft's beautiful Bing building downtown, the event was attended by more than 30 UltraCam sensor ....
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