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Welcome to our mid-January eNewsletter. Here in New Hampshire we have an early January thaw and when you are reading this I will be attending the 92nd annual Transportation Research Board meeting in Washington, DC. With over 11,000 expected to attend, and 2500 papers this is the most important transportation conference of the year.
I am giving a presentation on the need for a universal transportation data model. As any good GIS professional will tell you, in the end it's all about data, and if you want to efficiently and effectively manage data you need everyone to be working with the same data model. This becomes particularly important when states begin to collect 3D asset data as they did recently in Utah. I will post a link to the presentation in the next eNewsletter.
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LiDAR News is updated 24/7 with the latest news and announcements affecting the business..
Point Clouds from Images
LP360 is a family of tools for exploiting point clouds. The fundamental difference between an image and a point cloud is that the point cloud is a three dimensional representation of an environment whereas an image is a two dimensional representation (or, at best, a "two and a half" dimensional representation). A second major difference is that images are most typically represented using a uniform grid structure ...
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Check out our video of the week, hand-picked by our editorial team:
Headphones and LiDAR
As this video shot at this year's Consumer Electronics Show points out Velodyne is a technology company. The challenge comes in trying to explain that ...
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3D laser surveying has become an important enabler of efficient plant revamp and upgrade projects. This AVEVA Business Paper describes how plant owner operators and engineering contractors can gain maximum value from this powerful technology, to reduce the cost, risk and downtime of plant modification projects. Readers will gain valuable insight into avoiding common mistakes in the use of laser scanning and ways in which 3D scan data can become a valuable asset for plant lifecycle management.
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2013 Predictions - One Point of View: John Russo AIA – I think you will find a very thought provoking set of ideas. 1) Interior mobile continues to gain traction, but the cost will need to match that of a static scanner before it is adopted in any significant numbers. The market simply won't bear the cost of $100k+ scanners - even for mobile. 2) Software as a Service, SaaS ...
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TopoDOT™ Software Extracts Floor Flatness per ASTM Standards: Ted Knaak – Certainty 3D of Orlando Florida has recently added floor measurement tools to the TopoDOT™ tool suite in order to process point cloud data and extract measurements per ASTM International Standards E 1155—96 “Standard Test Method for Determining FF Floor Flatness and FL Floor Levelness ...
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Processing and Communicating - Internally: Stephen Clancy – There are countless articles on Mobile LiDAR addressing a variety of topics. As an industry, we do an effective job of communicating to our peers and perspective clients the projects we’ve performed, the accuracies we’ve achieved, or the unique solutions we offer, among other topics. However, aside from the ...
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LiDAR Magazine - Volume 2, Number 5 (Sept/October)
• Mentoring • Field Work • Preserving the Past • Data Fusion • Viametris • Vegetation Management • Terrestrial Scanning User Meeting • Random Points • Coordinates and BIM • Business • GXP v4.0 • 3D Industry Pioneers...and more!
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LiDAR Magazine - Volume 2, Number 4 (July/August)
• The Surveying Profession • Small Business • Heritage Preservation • Re-Modeling The Mixmaster • Utility Infrastructure • Saving Lives • Mapping Natural Hazards • Sea Level Rise • 3D Energy Modeling • Mapping Indoors...and more!
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Registration open for the International LiDAR Mapping Forum, Denver, Colorado: February 11-13th
Three-day technical conference and exhibition focused on airborne and bathymetric LiDAR, with a particular emphasis on mobile mapping systems. Listen to industry experts presenting the latest concepts and industry advances, explore 70+ exhibitors, attend ‘Basics to LiDAR’ workshops and see mobile mapping vehicles on-site.
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This section is an update about LiDAR conferences, training, seminars, webinars and other relevant events. Feel free to make a suggestion for future consideration.
 ILMF 2013 - Denver Colorado: February 11-13, 2013
ASPRS 2013 Annual Conference - Baltimore, Maryland: March 24-28, 2013
SPAR 2013 - Colorado Springs, Colorado: April 15-18, 2013
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