HxGN Live 2014 in Full Effect

HxGN Live 2014 is in full effect.  A great conference so far, with a lot of great stories.  People are doing some amazing things with Hexagon technology.

The exhibit hall opened today and our mobile mapping Tahoe is all setup with the new Pegasus: Two setup. Pegasus: Two was unveiled this morning and consists of a few upgrades from our P1 system.  The core positioning (GPS/IMU) technology is the same superior positioning as our P1 system, however some improvements have been made to the overall shell and general form factor.  We had the opportunity to collect some data on the Las Vegas strip this past Saturday with the new system.  The new platform looks great...especially on our Tahoe!

Almost There...Woot!

Our mobile mapping Tahoe is on it's way to Las Vegas for the HxGN Live 2014 conference, where it will be inside the MGM Grande Conference Hall during next week's conference.

Should be rolling into town today.  Looking forward to a great conference and excited to see the latest in geospatial technology!

HxGN Live

HxGN Live starts in Vegas in one week! Come see Eric Barden and Nathan Shepherd from Spicer Group present on survey grade mobile LiDAR and how it is being used on asset collection projects.  And while you're there come check out our mobile mapping vehicle inside the MGM Grande hotel!

For more details on the conference go here.  www.hxgnlive.com

Another Successful Sub 2cm Design Survey!

When Accuracy Matters:

We just completed another successful sub 2cm design survey on a 6 mile section of 6 lane divided freeway including 3 interchanges.  Crews placed 415 control targets that were precisely digital leveled. 125 of those targets were used for trajectory control and the remaining 290 were independent validation targets.  All 415 targets were within the DOT standard of 2cm (0.06') maximum deviation in X,Y and Z.

Below are some screen shots of the final RGB point cloud that will be used to produce full 3D planimetric mapping deliverables to DOT specifications, including detailed DTM surface modeling.

RGB Point Cloud of One of 3 Interchanges

RGB Point Cloud of One of 3 Interchanges

RGB Point Cloud of One of 3 Interchanges

When you have the most portable survey grade mobile mapping solution...

Well, like the title says.  When you have the most portable survey grade mobile mapping solution in the world, you tend to get requests to survey areas no other system can survey.  A few weeks ago we were scanning 5 miles of a shallow trout stream for a bank stabilization project in Virginia; from our 14 foot Jon boat.  Today, the team is performing an inland lake shoreline survey to support the design of new forcemain on the lake side of a lake in the Detroit area; from our 18 ft boat.  Tomorrow it's back on the truck for an engineering grade design survey of a freeway corridor.  Within the next 2 weeks it's back on the boat to perform bank scanning along a 22 mile river corridor...this is true versatility!

Check out our podcast with Leica Geosystems!

Check out our podcast on mobile mapping with the Leica Pegasus: One, with Leica Geosystems.

Leica Podcast with Spicer Group Inc.

Mobile Mapping Services Video LIVE!

Check out our mobile mapping services video....it just went live.

Here it is on Vimeo and Youtube....Vimeo quality is much better, although both degrade the full HD version.
Hope you enjoy!

Mobile Mapping Services | Spicer Group Inc. (Vimeo)

Mobile Mapping Services | Spicer Group Inc. (Youtube)

Made it to North Carolina!

The team made it through winter storm Hercules yesterday and made it to sunny North Carolina for 50 miles of collect.  Here's a nice mountain backdrop.