Transportation & Infrastructure
Kaarta’s Stencil 2 release offers a lot more than a new compact mobile lidar
Though the changes include the kinds of updates you might expect—better hardware, improved accuracy, easier workflow and so on—the updates to the UI and processing are the real stars of the show.
SBG’s latest INS aims for simple sensor fusion in aerial and mobile mapping
The Navsight processing unit at the center of the solution handles a lot of sensor fusion for you.
Bentley goes open source to enable build-your-own digital twin solutions
Bentley goes open source, enabling customers to build their own digital twin solutions with Bentley’s code.
Bentley iTwin Services connect your 3D and engineering data to create flexible digital twins
The platform that combines a number of new and existing Bentley technologies to facilitate the creation of data-rich digital twins for your assets.
Photogrammetry: A changing discipline
This year, software company Racurs celebrates its 25th anniversary. During their latest Scientific and Technical User Conference, the company looked back at how photogrammetry as a discipline has changed and what challenges and opportunities await in the coming years.
FARO put its Focus lidar on a UAV for wide-area scanning
This solution may look like a Photoshop joke, but it’s very real.
LiBackpack: versatile mobile lidar solutions (complete with machine-learning classification)
Want one lidar? Want two? Prefer to hold the lidar like a torch sometimes? Greenvalley has you covered.
Ball Aerospace apparently makes Geiger-mode lidar, receives defense and aerospace manufacturing license from Argo AI
Ball Aerospace offers Geiger-mode for the commercial market as well.
Ouster’s lidar is a “camera”—which means great things for deep learning and autonomy
Ouster is bringing camera and lidar functionality together in one sensor, with positive effects for deep learning.
3DEP added a dynamic map service for accessing lidar data on the fly
The USGS 3D elevation program—an initiative to gather nationwide lidar data by 2023—has been a…
Nomoko is building a cm-accuracy digital twin of the world—and a platform to help you use it
Nomoko makes an extremely hi-def camera and a fast processing pipeline, but these aren’t for sale. The company’s actual product is much more ambitious.
Rapid, safe 3D capture of underground utilities reduces risk for construction projects
A major breakthrough in underground detection enables projects to collect data about underground infrastructure at roadway speeds–scoring a point for construction safety and risk-reduction.