Oregon Department of Transportation uses TITAN® Mobile Scanning Solution
Houston, Texas, Thursday, February 26, 2009 – The TITAN® division of Ambercore - the 4D Company - is pleased to announce that the Oregon Department of Transportation recently completed a successful mobile scanning project on 77 miles of largely urban four-lane highways in west central Oregon. They used the TITAN® mobile scanning system provided by David Evans and Associates.
The project involved a road side inventory of features to support various safety improvements and pavement projects. In the past this type of data was hand gathered, which not only exposed the survey crews to traffic dangers, but resulted in a single purpose data collect and solution.
Using the TITAN® system to collect the corridor resulted in an accurate and complete inventory of all the road side features. This data will fully support current projects, and additionally provides an archive of features for use on future projects. The overall cost to do the TITAN® inventory was competitive with the traditional hand gathered method, but resulted in a much more useful product and greatly decreased the risk to the field survey crews.
TITAN® is a mobile LiDAR scanning system developed and sold by the TITAN® division of Ambercore. TITAN® collects a dense and accurate 360 degree data set at highway speeds without interfering with traffic flow. It also eliminates the need to have surveyors exposed to the risks of traffic because the system is operated totally from within the vehicle.
About the Oregon Department of Transportation
The Oregon Department of Transportation is responsible for all the state owned highways in Oregon. They have a long history of being an early adopter of appropriate technology which will enable them to manage these highways in a more efficient manner. ODOT has been a user of static scanning technology and saw mobile scanning as the next logical step with the technology. ODOT develops programs related to Oregon’s system of highways, roads, and bridges; railways; public transportation services; transportation safety programs; driver and vehicle licensing; and motor carrier regulation. The state of Oregon is ranked 15th largest according to total miles of highway (urban and rural) by the U.S. Department of Transportation 2007 Highway Statistics.
About David Evans and Associates, Inc.
Since its founding in 1976 in Portland, Ore., DEA has become a recognized leader for progressive and sustainable design and management solutions for complex transportation, land development, energy, and water resources projects nationwide. The firm has over 25 offices in seven states and employs nearly 1,100. Its staff includes professional engineers, surveyors, planners, landscape architects, and natural resources scientists. DEA is an employee-owned corporation and consistently ranks among Engineering News Record’s Top 100 Pure Design firms in the U.S. DEA and its staff are committed to improving the quality of life, while demonstrating stewardship of the built and natural environments. For more information about DEA, visit www.deainc.com.
About Ambercore
Ambercore is the 4D Company. We make innovative mobile LiDAR technology, we provide LiDAR data collection services, and integrate and extract knowledge from 4D data. TITAN® is a revolutionary technology that produces high accuracy survey and mapping products for corridor and infrastructure projects across a number of vertical markets. Travelling at highway speeds – or on rail or vessel – the system uses state-of-the-art LiDAR, imaging and positioning technology to provide feature rich 3-dimensional data, from which intelligent information is extracted and delivered to clients. TITAN® has been deployed on projects throughout the world since 2003. Ambercore’s 4D-iQ provides enterprise-scale software and service solutions for Energy, Mining and natural resource sectors. With its powerful spatial modeling and simulation software, 4D-iQ helps clients make important business decisions by collecting, integrating and analyzing spatial information in 2D, 3D and in 4D (over time). Ambercore’s Terrapoint Division has provided LiDAR and other digital mapping services for a diverse clientele in over forty countries for the past twenty years. Terrapoint’s primary focus is to find solutions that fit client needs, and to continue a reputation for meeting and exceeding client demands in the delivery of digital elevation and image data. Service and product offerings include complete airborne LiDAR, and digital imaging for engineering, survey and mapping applications. Terrapoint is considered a leader in aerial LiDAR services, and owns one of the largest fleets of sensors in the world. Best of breed solutions comprised of software, hardware and services have been deployed internationally with tier-one clients. Ambercore is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada with offices in Houston, Calgary, South Africa and Europe.
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