Allpoint Systems
officially releases its automated extraction and measurement system at the SPAR Europe Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, a
leading 3D imaging and data management conference.
Allpoint Systems
officially releases its automated extraction and measurement system at the
SPAR
Europe
conference
in The Hague, Netherlands, a
leading 3D imaging and data management conference.
The Allpoint technology enables surveyors, engineers, and transportation
agencies to
accurately and
quickly inventory and analyze infrastructure assets such as bridges, signs,
traffic signals,
utility poles, power
lines and more using 3D LiDAR (or laser) data. Allpoint Systems
and Terrametrix,
LLC, a
leading 3D terrestrial mobile LiDAR scan (TMLS) service provider
using the StreetMapper 360
laser mobile mapping
system, will jointly present a case study on how Terrametrix
uses Allpoint’s bridge
clearance
measurement application to process bridges at an order of magnitude faster than
conventional
methods. Terrametrix
is currently using similar methods to document 7,250 bridges in the State of
California for
vertical and horizontal clearance.
The application is
one of the first commercially available software processing systems using
advanced
robotic perception
techniques. The bridge application is built on top of Allpoint’s
Perception Engine,
a set of statistical
algorithms that batch process entire directories of 3D LiDAR point
cloud data. The
Perception Engine
enables automation and makes possible data deliverables that would be difficult
through manual
processing. According to Allpoint’s CEO, Aaron Morris, “In robotics
research,
perception
technologies use laser data to create an understanding of a robot’s surrounding
environment.
At Allpoint, we are
applying those concepts to create a faster and more accurate way of
handling 3D point
clouds in surveying
and engineering. With the advent of mobile acquisition systems, there is an
opportunity to
quickly and inexpensively find and extract value from the massive amounts of
detailed
data that expert
surveyors like Terrametrix are collecting from 3D mobile LiDAR. Our
system organizes
data in a way that
makes information production more efficient and satisfies engineering needs
required
for bridge clearance
measurements.”
Michael Frecks, PLS,
President of Terrametrix and an experienced surveyor and service provider
of 3D
terrestrial mobile
laser scanning, will discuss how Terrametrix is a leader in providing
bridge clearance
services to US
departments of transportation and how they use Allpoint to streamline and
scale their
workflow. During
collection of 589 bridges in 2010, Terrametrix demonstrated the ability to
meet project
objectives at a time
and cost not previously possible in the industry utilizing traditional
surveying
methods, all while
maintaining the highest survey standards possible. Frecks, with 35 years of
professional survey
experience and 12 years experience in high tech 3D laser scanning as an
innovator in
the industry, said, ”The Allpoint
technology eliminates time consuming and repetitive tasks so human
resources are freed
up for more value-based activities. It allows us to further leverage our
expertise as
professional
surveyors and focus on the needs of our clients.”
The bridge
measurement system is the second application Allpoint has built on top of
its Perception
Engine architecture
in addition to a wastewater pipe inspection application. Leveraging the core
system,
Allpoint has
developed other, new applications that map, model and measure important
infrastructure
such as signs,
traffic lanes, traffic lights, utility poles and power lines. To
date, Allpoint has processed
over 1.5 Million
linear feet of waste water pipes and thousands of miles of mobile LiDAR
data.
For more
information, visitwww.allpointsystems.com, www.terrametrix3d.comorwww.streetmapper.net.
Allpoint Systems Releases Automated Bridge Inventory Survey Solution Used by Terrametrix to Measure a Statewide Inventory of Bridges
November 8, 2011
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