LiDAR 0201 Cloud Computing

We has solutions for producing fully corrected and geo-referenced multibeam point clouds in real-time. This ability is interested to Mobile Laser Mapping System users to generate similarly corrected and geo-referenced point clouds on-the-fly for laser systems interfaced to GNSS and INS sensors.

While mobile platforms were already used in the land survey industry to collect the data, the idea of a REAL-TIME laser scanning system are to produce a DTM on-the-fly that is fully corrected for height, motion, position and timing as acquisition proceeds, consequently saving a great deal of post-processing time.

We added support for REAL-TIME laser scanning in 2016. We are now able to interface to most of the laser scanning systems being used in the land survey industry (Quanergy). As with multibeam, We are able to acquire data from multiple laser scanning systems simultaneously to produce a homogenous point cloud on-the-fly.

 

The accuracy of some modern laser scanning systems is extremely high. Many systems are able to measure ranges to the centimeter level over distances of more than 150 meters. As with any survey, required final positioning accuracy dictates the quality of systems employed. For final positioning of the highest order, accurate range measurements must be complemented by using GNSS positioning systems corrected with VRS-RTK and inertial navigation systems (INS) of the highest rank. Employing quality sensors, REAL-TIME laser scanning can be performed at speeds of 80 km/h. High end INS even allows data acquisition for limited time periods through tunnels and in other conditions where GNSS positioning is periodically problematic.

With our new SoC we are able to compute and store more than 500.000 points per second without any problem. As a result the user has a nearly finished end product straight after the survey was executed. The final end result can be enhanced by importing trajectory data from the Inertial Navigation System or INS, thereby improving particularly the height component to the millimeter level.

The resultant fully geo-referenced point cloud is available to 3rd party systems for further processing, e.g. Automated LIDAR Object Detection & Classification using Artificial Intelligence.

A Mobile Laser Mapping System is ideal for scanning roads, urbanized areas, mines, stockpiles etc. in a very short time. But laser systems are also extremely useful in the marine environment, where lasers can be combined with multibeam to measure above and below water simultaneously. This application is ideal for scanning canals, ship channels and rivers. The once arduous task of surveying the underside of bridges is now accomplished in double quick time with a few vessel runs to map in the entire bridge.

Our integrated platform are an isolated, resource controlled, and portable runtime environment which runs on a host machine or virtual machine. An application or process which runs in a environment is packaged with all the required dependencies and configuration files; It’s given the illusion that there are no other processes running outside of execution box. Everything the application depends on to run successfully also lives inside this template.

The integrated platform is the vessel by which images are packaged and delivered. This automated process produces images (effectively templates) which may then be run anywhere—on premises, in the cloud, or on a personal machine.

Dedicated GPU Servers.

Resource-intensive applications with a large number of parallel tasks — such as image processing, bioinformatics, point cloud and big data — typically run very slowly on a conventional CPU. A graphical processing unit (GPU) processes the same tasks more rapidly, thanks to its massive parallel architecture. While originally designed to handle computation
only for computer graphics, GPUs have since been adapted with programming languages, such as CUDA, to perform computations in all types of applications. GPU Servers Provide Faster Processing for Complex Computations.

Global, high-capacity network.

Secure and robust network provides exceptional performance to customers across 5 continents. Network efficiency and stability is achieved through ongoing monitoring, optimization and quality arrangements with carriers worldwide.

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