New Video for a New Year!

We thought it fitting to start 2016 off with a new mobile mapping video.  It is hard to believe we have been offering this service for 2.5 years, since being the first company to bring the Pegasus Mobile Mapping solution to North America.  It has truly been an amazing ride so far, and the future continues to look bright.  We are continually looking for ways to bring cutting edge technology and new solutions to our valued clients.  We are proving every day that there is no better technology to achieve design grade accuracy at the level of efficiency we are offering with mobile LiDAR.

If you think mobile LiDAR may be a fit for your project, or are even unsure, please reach out to Eric Barden through our "contact us" page and have a discussion about your next project.  We will even provide sample datasets, and deliverables for your team to evaluate.

Here's to a successful year ahead!

Mobile LiDAR From Land and Sea

Here's a recent project we completed along the South Shoreline of Lake Michigan , near Chicago. Our team scanned the park area, adjacent streets, and parking areas from the truck, then mounted the Leica Pegasus Mobile LiDAR system on our marine vessel to scan the waterside features.  Below you can see the seamless matching of the land and water datasets along the rip rap.  From the combined dataset we were able to produce a detailed terrain surface in Civil 3D 2015.  In addition, Affiliated Researchers, LLC completed a multi-beam survey of the lake bottom and will be merging the LiDAR and multi-beam datasets for final data delivery.  Quite a unique project to be a part of.

Better Late....

I've been seriously behind on blog posts.  2014 has been a crazy year of many new opportunities with little time for blogging.  Hopefully I'll be able to keep the blog updated more regularly in 2015 and share details about some of the exciting projects that we have been fortunate enough to be a part of. Below are some graphics from a recent project we completed.  Stay tuned....we have some amazing projects lined up for 2015, like an entire Division 1A University campus, a prominent military installation, several municipal wide asset collection projects and various transportation design projects.

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.

Here are a Couple LiDAR Datasets

Here are a couple point cloud flythrough's from our Pegasus: One system.  Vimeo seems to retain the original .avi quality better than youtube. Check out the links below.

https://vimeo.com/81807848

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H7eJpRKsRg

Pegasus One Photo Shoot Today

Ready for on or off road scanning!

Modeling Bridges from Point Clouds

Here's a couple screen shots of a bridge substructure that we modeled.  The modeling is completed from the geo-referenced point cloud, so as you can see the modeled substructure elements are coordinate correct and overlay precisely with the topographic mapping data for the rest of the project.....which by the way was extracted from a lidar point cloud.  This is the same project data shown in Microstation and Civil 3D.

 (Above) Data shown in Civil 3D

(Above) Data shown in Microstation

Another Lidar and Sonar Flythrough

Here's another video of the same as below.  I've colored the river bottom data in an elevation banding mode making it clearer to see the river bottom data.  We are doing full 3D mapping extraction for all features and DTM breaklines from the point cloud as well.  Once that's wrapped up, I'll share some shots showing the extracted data along with the point cloud data.

Sneak Peak Lidar and Sonar Datasets

Here's the first dataset showing the lidar data merged with the sonar data.  I threw this together quickly....will work on additional editing and visualization options to try and "fine tune" the animation a bit.  In the meantime, enjoy the sneak peak.  (Point cloud was reduced by 80% to be manageable)

Merging Lidar and Sonar Technologies

We are working on a project now that combines terrestrial lidar data with multibeam sonar data of a fairly large river corridor.  This is going to be pretty amazing when we get it all pulled together.  I will share more information in the upcoming days as we get closer to finalizing everything.

3D Feature Mapping From Mobile Lidar Point Clouds

Here's a video of a 7 mile freeway project we recently completed.  Full 3D survey grade feature extraction from a mobile lidar dataset.  6 lanes of barrier divided freeway surveyed without closing lanes or placing surveyors in the roadway. 

Another Flythrough Along I-75

Another flythrough:  Truck Mounted Mobile Lidar Data

Truck Mounted Mobile Lidar Data at Highway Speeds

Here's a video of a 1.5 mile stretch of I-75 Northbound in Detroit.

Topcon IPS-2 HD Accuracy Test

We recently did some testing with the latest Topcon IPS-2 HD mobile lidar system.  We had a section of freeway that we recently completed a mobile lidar project for using a Reigl VMX-250.  Since we had precise survey control in place with many of the painted chevrons still in place, we took the opportunity to test the latest Topcon system under the same conditions as the Reigl system. While we had the Topcon system in possession, we took the opportunity to collect some amazing lidar data on a few other projects as well.  In the upcoming weeks I will share the results from our testing as well as some of the other data we collected.

Large Area Coverage with Terrestrial Lidar

With the release of Leica Geosystems' latest terrestrial scanner, static terrestrial scanning can actually be done in a highly productive manner.  By mounting the Leica P20 on a Yamaha Rhino UTV we were able to do stop and go scanning at a rate not previously possible.  The P20 scans at a rate of 1 Million pts per second....so we were performing full 360 degree scans in less than four minutes at a resolution far exceeding the realm of reasonable for most feature extraction software packages.  The P20 is a game changer in the static terrestrial market......I just cannot wait to go full mobile with one of these...or maybe even two