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.

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!

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

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