Rapid Surveyor™
Rapid Surveyor™ is a Mobile Lidar System that can acquire at up to 400,000 measurements per second ensuring very detailed real world information collections.
Rapid Surveyor gives the user the ability to capture point cloud information from a moving platform with a level of precision that will complement existing survey techniques. This also has the added benefit of minimising exposure of staff to high risk environments such as the highway and rail tracks.
Typically the mobile mapping systems are ideally suited for corridor mapping and therefore market focus is on road and rail networks. As with terrestrial scanners the range of the sensor is dependant on the reflectivity and orientation of the objects or surface but generally sensors are suitable up to 200m.
Typical applications suited to mobile lidar:
- Road infrastructure
- Asset inventory
- Source data for 2D / 3D mapping
- Overhead surveys, cables etc
- Rail infrastructure and asset capture
- Building modelling and façade detail
The generated output can be used and displayed in many formats such as LAS, Ascii XYZi, POD, Pts with the RAW point cloud, a very powerful tool for straight forward point to point measurement. It is essential that a clear statement of work (SOW) is defined before commencing with such a survey; this is reflected by specifying tolerances for point resolution, range and accuracy. Very often the point cloud is used to create further products and surfaces such as:
- DTM by Meshing or surfacing
- 2D and 3D line drawings
- Asset feature capture
- Profiles Cross Section generation
- Animation
