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Good morning from Texas! It's been pretty stale here as of late so I just wanted to cast a lure out there and try to get some discussion going. I'd like to get some experiences and thoughts on performing integrated capture using aerial photogrammetry and terrestrial LiDAR whether it be a mounted or SLAM unit. We have been doing some of this with some success so I wanted to see if anyone has tried it and see what are you finding that works and doesn't.
We have found that something like a Leica BLK2GO is a good mid-tier SLAM scanner to supplement. I know quite a few Surveyors and Reality Capture service providers are using RTC360's or x7's and obviously they are the standard, but SLAM has improved greatly over the last year and IMO will replace those for 75% of use cases. SLAM has the advantage of better portability for traversing and is easier to mount on a variety of transport methods. It also has advantages over aerial Lidar in the fact that you are under the canopy, but you can also use it indoors. I have found that being able to fly using photogrammetry, getting a quick cloud processed and making a determination if the capture is sufficient is pretty easy. Then we can run the SLAM if necessary. If we know photogrammetry isn't going to cut it we do both at the same time.
Anyone doing this or just using SLAM outdoors in general? Let's chat!
We have found that something like a Leica BLK2GO is a good mid-tier SLAM scanner to supplement. I know quite a few Surveyors and Reality Capture service providers are using RTC360's or x7's and obviously they are the standard, but SLAM has improved greatly over the last year and IMO will replace those for 75% of use cases. SLAM has the advantage of better portability for traversing and is easier to mount on a variety of transport methods. It also has advantages over aerial Lidar in the fact that you are under the canopy, but you can also use it indoors. I have found that being able to fly using photogrammetry, getting a quick cloud processed and making a determination if the capture is sufficient is pretty easy. Then we can run the SLAM if necessary. If we know photogrammetry isn't going to cut it we do both at the same time.
Anyone doing this or just using SLAM outdoors in general? Let's chat!
