When one of Veris’ clients needed to quickly survey hundreds of newly installed street furniture assets within the busy CBD of an Australian capital city, the company turned to the Leica Geosystems Pegasus TRK vehicle-mounted scanner to do the job.
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The aim of the project was to ensure that the streetside assets were sited and built as stipulated by the client and in accordance with requirements specified by the relevant governmental authority. With the assets initially installed, liability for any problems — graffiti, car accidents, pedestrian accidents — remained with Veris’ client until such time as the client could assure its client that the assets had been installed correctly… whereupon liability would then transfer to that ultimate client. In order for this to happen, a survey would need to be undertaken.
All up, there were 500 individual assets within the CBD area that needed to be checked.
“We looked at the safest way to execute it and the most efficient way to execute it,” said Vassili Galettis, Client Director at Veris. “That’s where we came up with the TRK solution, and its ability to handle urban canyons, tall buildings and a GNSS-denied environment.”
“It meant we could use it’s SLAM capability to produce an accurate, geo-referenced point cloud, from which we could extract the information required,” said Galettis.
The client had already broken the back of the asset installation work, with 70% of the job completed. This meant that Veris could get the project done in a fast timeframe, which in turn meant that client’s liability obligations would be assured in an expedited manner.
“And that enabled them to hit their program targets,” said Galettis. “They would have been looking at months of data capture the traditional way as opposed to just days with the TRK.”
Veris conducted the survey during the daytime because they saw the value in having imagery of the assets, not just the LiDAR data. “We did multiple runs along each of the streets, and the beauty of the TRK is you have the ability to merge the data from the runs and remove unwanted items,” said Galettis.
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