I have been in the business long enough to watch lidar point density go from single-line profilers with perhaps a point every few…
Author: Lewis Graham
05.22.2021
If at First You Don’t Succeed…
It’s 2021 and we are many years into the evolution of using drones with high accuracy sensors for surveying and mapping applications. In…
04.01.2021
What to Consider When Investing in a Laser Scanner For Your Projects
As a provider in lidar and drone mapping solutions we constantly monitor the lidar scanner market, searching for the perfect laser sensors to…
11.01.2020
Has Lidar Viz Come of Age?
The nice thing about hardware is you can pick it up, feel its heft, move it around in your hands, scare the booth…
06.14.2020
Accuracy—Needs Versus Wants
We have a very conservative network accuracy specification of 5 cm RMSE for our True View 410 “utility” grade 3D Imaging System (lidar…
03.26.2020
Accuracy Isn’t One Dimensional
We have built dozens of True View 410 3D imaging Systems (3DiS) for sUAS over the past several months. With each unit, we…
02.12.2020
Random Points: What Is a 3DiS Anyway?
I really think it is time, particularly in the small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) mapping arena, to make high accuracy colorized 3D point…
01.14.2020
Random Points: Beauty is Only Skin Deep
I was recently involved in a detailed discussion of various metrics of processed airborne laser scanning (ALS) data that can be used as…
08.09.2019
Let’s all do the Z bump!
I just returned from the summer meeting of the Transportation Research Board’s AFB-80 committee. This is a standing committee that deals with high…
06.09.2019
“Of course it’s better!”
I have been thinking about the adoption curve of drone lidar systems. To us practitioners, the need for lidar on a drone is…
