Vice-President of Engineering Presents Paper at TRB 88th Annual Meeting
Ottawa, Canada Monday, January 12, 2009 – Ambercore, the leading global provider of innovative mobile LiDAR technology, LiDAR data collection services, and high performance 4D spatial software, is pleased to announce that the Transportation Research Board (TRB) has accepted a paper by Craig Glennie P.Eng., PhD, Vice-President of Engineering, for presentation at the TRB 88th Annual Meeting. The meeting is to take place on January 13, 2009 in Washington D.C.
The TRB is one of six major divisions of the National Research Council— a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal operating agency of the National Academies in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The National Research Council is jointly administered by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
The TRB annually engages more than 7,000 engineers, scientists, and other transportation researchers and practitioners from the public and private sectors and academia, all of whom contribute their expertise in the public interest by participating on TRB committees, panels, and task forces. The program is supported by state transportation departments, federal agencies including the component administrations of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other organizations and individuals interested in the development of transportation.
The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal.
Craig Glennie’s paper “A Kinematic Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning System” discusses how highway corridor surveys are becoming more and more difficult and expensive to carry out because of the need to minimize lane closures, traffic disruptions and safety hazards posed to the surveyors as well as the public. Roadway workers and surveyors are at risk, whether in vehicles or not, when working in the traffic corridor if they can’t move with the flow of traffic. Safety for the travelling public is also a major problem when lanes are closed, or blocked by slow moving vehicles. Working on the edge of the corridor and having to enter and exit traffic flow can also be dangerous to the highway worker as well. Costs for the placement of safety trucks and pylons to protect the survey crew can in some instances be greater than the cost of the survey work itself. In order to mitigate these problems, a survey data acquisition tool is needed that can collect detailed topographic and infrastructure information without requiring traffic management, lane closures or even a disruption in traffic flow.
The paper describes how Ambercore’s TITAN mobile color LiDAR scanner has successfully been used as a stealth survey tool on existing highway corridors in California, Washington, Ontario, British Columbia, and Texas. Traveling with the traffic flow and not requiring an escort, the system scans a 360 degree swath that includes the pavement surface as well as objects to the sides and above the survey vehicle.
To see the full paper please see the downloadable version at http://www.ambercore.com/titan.php.
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 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. 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).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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