Category: Random Points

Lewis Graham

11.15.2021

We Need New Lidar Testing Criteria

I have been in the business long enough to watch lidar point density go from single-line profilers with perhaps a point every few…

05.22.2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have been thinking about the adoption curve of drone lidar systems. To us practitioners, the need for lidar on a drone is…