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September 2020
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
INDUSTRY
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The International LIDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) and Geo
Week hosted their 3rd annual 2020 Lidar Leader Awards
presentation where the board recognized
GeoCue
Group’s
True View® 410 3D Imaging System (3DIS™) as the 2020
Outstanding Innovation in Lidar winner.
Introduced to the market in June 2019, the True View 410
LIDAR/camera fusion sensor is the first drone-carried data col-
lection system designed from the ground-up to match high qual-
ity photogrammetric imagery with lidar point clouds. Featuring
Quanergy’s M8 Ultra lidar sensor, dual GeoCue photogrammet-
ric cameras and an Applanix Position and Orientation System
(POS), the True View 410 produces high-accuracy 3D colorized
lidar point clouds within minutes of landing. The sensor has a
120-degree fused field of view and can be carried by any drone
capable of managing a payload of 2.25 kg.
The True View 410 system provides all the technology needed
to realize the entire 3D Imaging workflow from start to finish;
sensor, Applanix positioning software and GeoCue’s True
View EVO comprehensive postprocessing/analytic software.
Rather than spending hours waiting on image reconstruction
software to create a 3D point cloud, the True View 410 yields
high accuracy products such as colorized bare earth point cloud,
volumetrics, elevation models and other deliverable products
in short order.
The award also cited GeoCue’s novel “Hardware-as-a-Service”
subscription model that allows customers to subscribe to a True
View 410 3DIS for periods as short as one month. This novel
business model provides customers a very low risk approach to
trying drone 3D imaging technology as well as providing a very
cost-effective way to deal with business fluctuations.
“We are extremely pleased to be recognized by the ILMF for
this innovation award,” said Lewis Graham, GeoCue Group’s
President and CTO. My engineering teams worked long hours
to bring this product to market; it is very rewarding to see their
efforts recognized with this honor. It was a true team effort with
terrific collaborative support from the engineers at Applanix and
Quanergy. I am still amazed to see the stunning, 3D colorized
point clouds produced by this sensor.”
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Waller, Todd & Sadler, a
Company
, provided inte-
grated design services for the renovation of Café 1201 at
. Located inside Webb University Center,
the facility offers students easy access to food options throughout
the day at a site that serves as a social hub for the university
community.
Woolpert Architect and Practice Leader Stelios Xystros said
the project transformed a “tired, all-you-care-to-eat dining facility
into a bright and modern dining center.” The project also added a
catering kitchen and a smaller residential dining concept, Ruby’s
Café, named after longtime employee Ruby Milteer.
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Teledyne Optech
, a Teledyne Technologies company and
global leader in advanced lidar sensors has extended its
bestselling Galaxy lineup to include the
,a new sensor
specifically designed for corridor mapping.
With a true measuring rate of up to 2 million points per sec-
ond, the Galaxy CM2000 delivers precise detail of fine corridor
elements such as electric wires and conductors, distribution
power poles, railway signs, cellular tower antennas, as well
the ability to detect fine changes in the ground over time for
pipeline monitoring.
The CM2000’s adjustable field of view, provides users with
the flexibility to narrow the field of view to the exact width of
their corridor and thus concentrate the laser measurements on
their precise target. This combination of an adjustable field of
view, and a measurement rate of 2 million points per second,
will deliver data resolution that allows for advanced analytics,
insights, and decision making.
The Galaxy CM2000 has the smallest laser footprint in the
market allowing for complete detection of towers, transmission
and distribution wires and attachment points on power poles.
In addition, the CM2000 has built in roll compensation which
corrects for turbulence on the aircraft, maintaining a constant
swath width on the ground.
“The true advantage of the Galaxy CM2000 is its ability to
improve the mapping of the infrastructures that we all rely on
every day – including the electric grid we count on for power,
or the roads and rail we depend on for safe travel. This is
accomplished by providing an astounding level of detail via true
2 million points per second straight to the ground and a small
laser footprint that allows for the modelling of complex targets
like electric towers and distribution wires,” commented Malek
Singer, Airborne Product Manager at Teledyne Optech.
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CALENDAR
• 9-13 November 2020,
URISA GIS Leadership
Academy
, St. Petersburg, Florida. For more information,
visit
leadership-academy/.
• 30 November - 4 December 2020,
Climate Change and
Disaster Management — Technology and Resilience
in a Troubled World
, Sydney, Australia. For more
information, visit
ccdm2020.
• 28 January - 4 February 2021,
43
rd
COSPAR Scientific
Assembly
, Sydney, Australia. For more information, visit
/.
• 7-11 June 2021,
URISA GIS Leadership Academy
,
Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more information, visit
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leadership-academy/.
