The nice thing about hardware is you can pick it up, feel its heft, move it around in your hands, scare the booth…
Author: Lewis Graham
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…
04.01.2019
Wide Angle Blues
Earlier this year, I gave a talk on interpreting specifications of UAV lidar systems. I promised a few folks that I would write…
01.26.2019
Analyze This!
Our company, GeoCue Group, has been doing a lot of work these past two years in the areas of data processing and management…
11.27.2018
Oh, One More Thing…
For years our company has provided software, consulting services, training and just about everything associated with lidar except the actual hardware. Of course,…
