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April 2017
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
INDUSTRY
NEWS
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
There is a perception that slavery still exists only in history
books. But in reality, over 30 million people are enslaved to-
day—as in Indonesia, where men promised fair work in fisher-
ies have been held captive for decades.
Associated Press National Writer Martha Mendoza contact-
ed
DigitalGlobe
about the difficulty of locating and identify-
ing fishing vessels engaged in the Indonesian slave trade. She
needed indisputable evidence.
Enter DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite, whose high-res-
olution 30 cm imagery provided visual evidence of human traf-
ficking in action—empowering authorities to arrest the slave
boat captains and rescue the fishermen.
Watch the video here
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see-freedom.
GeoCue Group
is pleased to announce the latest release of
LP360. LP360 is available as a standalone application and
as an extension to ArcGIS®. This release (2017.1) includes
many feature updates as well as new tools aimed at improving
LP360’s Feature Editing capabilities.
LP360 2017.1 includes a new Feature Edit Toolbar, with
tools to enable the display, creation and advanced 3D editing
of vector features. With these tools, users can perform on-the-
fly 3D editing including automatic assignment of Z values to
vertices by probing point cloud data. The toolbar also includes
tools for simplifying features as well as reshaping, splitting,
respacing and reversing geometry. New Feature Analyst tools
allow users to view and edit the attributes of features and per-
form automated analysis such as downstream compliance for
hydro modeling, steep slope detection for stockpile toes and
acute angle removal for smoothing water body polygons. Please
see the GeoCue Group Support site (
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for more information on these new tools.
Along with these new edit/analysis tools, we have added a
number of other functions as well as updated many existing
capabilities of LP360. Among these are:
• New Spatial Reference System Reproject/Shift/Scale LAS
Point Cloud Task. This tool is particularly useful for re-
moving elevation bias caused by incorrect focal length in
sUAS projects
• New Grid Generator Point Cloud Task for creating project
layouts and conducting grid-based QC
• Enhanced performance of the automatic stockpile toe ex-
traction point cloud task
• The automatic Rail Centerline Extractor can now span at-
grade crossings
• A new option that allows reprojection of control and check
points during import
• Capability to Classify points at any display resolution
• Point selection is displayed across all views during clas-
sification
• Smoothing option for removing noise from sUAS generat-
ed contours
• New Export by LAS File option in Export Wizard allows
easy upgrades of LAS data to version 1.4 including full
WKT encoding of horizontal and vertical spatial reference
systems
• Breakline Enforcement button shortcut on main menu
allows quick visualization of surface models with incorpo-
rated mass point, linear and polygonal breaklines
• Snapping to Vertices and Lines for selection/editing
Each copy of LP360 includes both a Windows standalone
and an ArcGIS extension license. Customers who have LP360
on current maintenance will be able to update to the new re-
lease by using the “LP360 – Check for updates” tool in LP360.
To renew maintenance, please contact
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Teledyne Optech
is pleased to announce the release of its
Polaris Terrestrial Laser Scanner at the SPAR 3D Conference
and Expo, April 3-5, in Houston, Texas. This versatile, produc-
tive and user-friendly scanner was on display in booth #400
along with the Optech Maverick, Eclipse, and award-winning
Galaxy.
Bridging the gap between indoor and outdoor scanners, the
Polaris can survey targets up to 1600 m away in long-range
mode or collect up to 500,000 measurements per second in
short-range mode. Its 360°×120° field of view (FOV) captures
indoor panoramas from a single site, while its rugged design,
light weight, and swappable batteries let it travel deep into
the field.
The Polaris automatically detects its location with a built-
in GNSS receiver and selects the planned survey parameters
for the site — even untrained operators can execute a survey.
Alternatively, operators can set up surveys in the field and re-
section/backsight the system using the menu-driven GUI on
its touchscreen.
In other exciting news, the Galaxy airborne lidar just won
the MAPPS Grand Award for Innovation, and Teledyne Optech
staff was on hand to explain the SwathTRAK™ technology
that earned it the prize. By dynamically adjusting the Galaxy’s
scanner FOV in response to changes in the ground’s elevation,
SwathTRAK keeps the swath width and point density on the
ground consistent, even in hilly terrain. This technology saves
clients time and money by reducing the number of flightlines
required and ensuring homogeneous point density.
Find out more at
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EVENTS
Join us September 20 & 21, 2017 in Denver, Colorado for the
30th annual
GIS IN THE ROCKIES
Conference.
GIS in the Rockies offers outstanding professional work-
shops and presentations, Career Development Academy, ex-
hibitors, networking, social events, and more - all at our new
location, The Inverness Hotel & Conference Center.
Questions about GIS in the Rockies, contact chair@
gisintherockies.org.
