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.

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.

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

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.

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