Transportation & Infrastructure

Sense Photonics Cracks the 200m Lidar Milestone With Flash Lidar
Sense Photonics announced today that it has achieved an industry-first by successfully demonstrating 200-meter detection…

Allvision’s tech-forward workflows pave the way for safer highway infrastructure
By leveraging a combination of existing data and strategically partnering with service providers to collect more imagery and scans of road assets, Allvision is driven to improve highway safety with technology.

With a $30K pricetag, the ZEB Go aims to put SLAM in everyone’s hands
GeoSLAM has announced the ZEB Go, a new, small, and inexpensive SLAM scanner designed to…

Could car-mounted ‘6D’ lidar finally make road inspections affordable?
In response to a growing demand for digitized road data from road authorities, road engineers, road inspectors,…

Breaking the Centimeter Barrier
A Danish firm used the Trimble MX9 to meet sub-centimeter specifications of a major rail project.

How are DOTs using 3D tools to solve infrastructure and transportation challenges?
Departments of Transportation (DOTs) are responsible for maintaining the complex infrastructure, and face unique challenges…

Facebook acquires Mapillary, crowd-sourced street imagery company
Mapillary, a startup that specialized in object recognition for autonomous vehicles, especially on crowdsourced street-level…

Bentley Systems opens up access to ProjectWise 365 to support remote civil engineering teams
Infrastructure and civil design projects are essential for the functioning of cities and roadways, and…

Toposens’ 3D ultrasonic sensor brings close-range sensing to robotics
Toposens’ sensor technology uses sound to support a robust, low-cost and precise short-range 3D vision…

You can fly, drive, or walk with the Lidaretto mobile lidar platform
Flexibility was the primary goal when the surveying engineers behind Slovakian-based company Geotech decided to…

Blickfeld’s latest lidar sensor has a range up to 250 meters
Blickfeld is a German provider of solid-state lidar technology. Their latest offering is the Cube…

Mapillary maps objects detected in imagery using deep learning in 3D
Since its inception in 2014, millions of user-generated images were uploaded to the Mapillary platform.…