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Category Archives: Software
Leica Announces HDS University
If you have not been able to attend HxGN Live to take advantage of the training classes then this may be the answer. Leica Geosystems has announced the launch of HDS University, a new hands-on educational opportunity for professionals looking … Continue reading
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Lidar Drone Market Research Report
The increasing automation through LiDAR drones and reduction of human efforts drive the growth of the market. LiDAR drones have applications in corridor mapping, archaeology, precision farming, environment, construction, and entertainment. PDF sample download: http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/pdfdownload.asp?id=128835365 Both top-down and bottom-up approaches … Continue reading
3D Laser Scanning and Modeling Industry Survey
ClearEdge3D surveyed over 5,500 industry professionals worldwide and has produced a free report detailing their findings. The survey illuminates crucial industry data including average project profit margin, scanning/modeling best practices, profit margin degraders, hardware and software market share and more. … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, Business Development, Software, The Industry
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Smart Maps for Autonomous Vehicles
A silicon valley start-up Civil Maps has recently received $6 million in funding from a group that includes Ford Motors for their ability to produce 3D base maps that are much smaller in size as they only contain the critical … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, Autonomous vehicles, Consumer, Data, Software
Tagged Autonomous Vehicles, Civil Maps
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Reality Capture
Autodesk has coined the phrase “reality capture” to describe all of their technology related to 3D data capture, processing, modeling and much more whether acquired with a scanner or with a camera. The main software platform is ReCap 360 Pro … Continue reading
Automated Scan Data Processing for Common Design and Construction Challenges
This is a guest blog post from John Russo, AIA and founder of ARC and the USIBD. Thanks John for sharing this valuable information, and if you have an interesting message please contact me at gene.roe@lidarnews.com. I think it is … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, Construction, Software, Technology, Uncategorized
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A New Method for Road Feature Extraction
This paper by a team of researchers at the University of New South Wales presents a new framework of road feature extraction from color component–based data fusion of aerial imagery and lidar data. The proposed framework consists of six procedures: … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, airborne LiDAR, Research, Software
Tagged luminance, Road Feature Extraction
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The History of CAD Plus NASTO
Have you ever wondered how the CAD industry began? Well this website provides an amazingly detailed account of the history of CAD dating back to the 1960’s. It is called CADAZZ and they claim it is “the best CAD software … Continue reading
As-Damaged BIMs
A group of Israeli researchers are working on developing algorithms to predict the damage states of concrete buildings with masonry infills. After an earthquake, Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) can capture point clouds of the damaged state of building facades rapidly, … Continue reading
Indoor Localization Competition
This report appeared in Robotics Tomorrow. The Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition is a well-known annual benchmark for assessing many approaches to indoor localization. The purpose of the competition was to bring together real-time indoor location technologies and compare their performance … Continue reading
Posted in Indoor Mapping, SLAM, Software
Tagged Indoor Localization Competition, Microsoft, Real Earth, Velodyne
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