If someone had told you that tiny helicopters could capture the world by storm in less than ten years after their introduction into the commercial market, you would have never believed them, and yet here we are. Construction drone lidar has become so important that we no longer remember how to perform some tasks without using them.
From an article in NerdBot.
In the construction sector, for example, drone mapping helps engineers capture a wide field of view of a construction site to get an accurate topographical image. You can think of drone mapping as puzzling together drone images to make a perfect 3D map of an area.
But even an outstanding field such as drone mapping has little room for improvement. That is where Emesent Hovermap wriggles in. If you are a construction engineer curious about the future of drone mapping, you have come to the right place.
Introducing SLAM LiDAR
Just like every modern technology, drone mapping is not foolproof. As a construction engineer, you might have noticed how hard it is to use drones in places where you don’t have a clear line of sight. Capturing good images in such situations is always a gamble since you never know what is on the other side of an obstacle.
Lucky for you, pun intended, there are ways to go around such an obstacle. You see, with SLAM Lidar (short for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Light Detection and Ranging), you can navigate all those nooks and crannies you always had difficulty exploring when making your drone maps. And as you would expect, the best way to try out SLAM LiDAR is using the Emesent Hovermap.
Here are just a few ways Emesent Hovermap will transform the future of drone mapping.
1. Beyond Visible Line Of Sight Imaging
Drone mapping is usually all fun and games until you get to a point in your construction project where you can’t see the other side of an obstacle for you to fly the drone and get a perfect image.
In such situations, the only remedy you have is to risk your drone and fly it in the hope that you can trace it back. But who wants to risk their drone like that?
The Emesent Hovermap has angled LiDAR, which allows it to go beyond any obstacle and capture images further than your eye can see. The beauty of the angled LiDAR approach is that it uses an autonomous pilot with an outstanding computer.
You won’t have to constantly tinker with the controls to get a perfect image since the drone will work and swing back into the home position in no time.
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