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Engineering

Architecture

Design-Build

Surveying

Geomatics

April, 2016

LiDAR Business

Opportunities -

Beyond Typical

Elevation Models

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Incorporated in 1955 in Colorado USA

Market leadership: remote sensing, LiDAR, GIS, surveying and engineering

Professional Services Revenue: Merrick: $115M; Geomatics: $28.5 M: (LiDAR/Mapping: $12M, International: $6.5M, Survey 10M)

Photography 1958; GPS 1989; LiDAR 1997, multi-sensor fusion 2001; MARS 2003; hyperspectral 2008, UAVs 2013

LiDAR portfolio

Operated 5 sensors since 2001 MARS® point cloud software USGS GPSC contractor POB Top 100 (#13) ASPRS LiDAR technical committees MAPPS advocacy-education

Merrick’s Geomatics Legacy


Authoritative Elevation Technology


LiDAR Point Cloud


Unfiltered “first return” laser data (tops of vegetation canopy). Red points are highest elevations, blue points lowest.

Filtered surface (vegetation removed) for hurricane preparedness application and hydraulic modeling

Elevation Data With A Return On Investment


Traditional LiDAR Collection Platforms

Cessna 402 C with co-mounted LiDAR and imagery High definition laser scanning

Truck mounted LiDAR system Helicopter LiDAR – imagery pod


LiDAR Applications Beyond Elevations


Business Cases For LiDAR (adapted from USGS 3DEP)

Natural resources conservation

Water supply and quality

River & stream resource management

Coastal zone management

Forest resources management

Rangeland management

Wildlife and habitat management

Agriculture and precision farming

Geologic resource assessment and hazard mitigation

Mining planning, engineers, operations

Renewable energy resources

Oil and gas resources / pipelines

Cultural resources preservation and management

Flood risk management

Economic development

Engineered rivers and waterways

Sea level rise and land subsidence

Wildfire management, planning, emergency response

Homeland security, law enforcement

Civil protection and disaster response

Land navigation and safety

Marine navigation and safety

Aviation navigation and safety

Infrastructure/construction management

Urban and regional planning

Health and human services

Real estate, mortgage, insurance

Archeology

Education - Campus Facilities

Recreation planning & management

Telecommunications

Transportation engineering and safety

Cadastral modernization

Anti-narcotics ISR


U.S. Army Corps

Of Engineers ®

Missouri River Eagle Habitat Program

US Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City and Omaha Districts

Mitigate loss of habitat

Simultaneous collection: LiDAR, hyperspectral and imagery collection

Fusion of all data to cost effectively locate prime eagle habitat using remote sensing

Individual cottonwood tree super-canopy locations along Missouri River for optimal eagle nesting and habitat

Optimal eagle habitat locations and habitat

Bald eagle nesting on Missouri River


Missouri River Eagle Habitat Program

Individual Cottonwood Super Structure

Supervised classification identifies cottonwood

LiDAR develops height, shape and mass of trees

Pe

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tratio

n

Ponderosa Pine and Juniper

First Return

Second Return

Third Return

Fourth Return

Ground Points

Multiple Laser Returns from Point Cloud


Energy Conservation

US Government energy efficiency on military bases

Building heat loss study

Develop facility upgrades and modernization plans

Sensors and software:

Leica LiDAR

ITRES TABI-1800 Thermal Imager

Merrick digital camera

GIS, MARS and ERDAS, ENVI

Detected roof problems combining LiDAR 3D wireframes, BIM and thermal images Thermal image – red indicates heat loss

Remote sensing and GIS quantify damage


Positive Train Control (PTC)

Amtrak D.C.to NYC derailment in 2015

Track mounted mobile LiDAR system into tunnel

H.R.38.19 – Surface Transportation Extension Act

Class 1 RR compliance by 2018

Manage/control movement to:

Save lives

Avoid collisions/derailment

Enforce speed/restrictions

Rail work zone safety

Operational efficiencies

Helicopter and mobile LiDAR fusion:

25ppsm, 2cm imagery

Elevation profile and grade

Integrated inventory (signals, crossings, obstructions, etc.)


Bathymetric (underwater) LiDAR

Underwater LiDAR systems provide:

Surface elevation Deep water depth Shallow water depth Bottom composition (grass, rock,

sand, etc.) Suspended objects

Business drivers/applications:

Port/harbor engineering Security and surveillance Environmental and ecological Territory demarcation Coastal planning and monitoring Disaster evaluation/planning

Water column scientific analysis

Water Clarity

(Optech CZMIL) Measuring

Depth

Very clean 60 m

Clean 42 m

Typical Near Shore 28 m

Dirty 14 m

Very dirty 8 m

Turbid 5 m

Bathy LiDAR with ship wreck


Self-driving Vehicle Mapping

Airborne and mobile LIDAR supports

navigation system

10 million self driving cars on the highways by 2020 (255M – 2016)

Car manufactures investing in precision navigation data

Many on-board sensors for positioning and orientation

LiDAR and high resolution imagery complements on-board/real-time systems

Fusion of helicopter and mobile LiDAR creates:

25ppsm, 2cm imagery

Accuracy: centimeter absolute, millimeter relative

Learned environment navigation


Colombia National Infrastructure Agency (ANI)

Bogotá - Belencito - 263 km (164 mi)

Estimate engineering/construction costs (cut and fill, bridge repair, etc.)

Mobile LiDAR 60 meter mapping corridor High density LiDAR point cloud 25 cm vertical and horizontal precision 0.5 meter contours Digitized railroad track vectors

UASs 120 meter mapping corridor 10cm pixel color digital imagery Digital Surface Model (DSM) Identify encroachments Quantify existing track “issues”

Railroad Rehabilitation

LiDAR ATV on Railroad Near Bogota

UAV Flight Check Before Take-off


Leica Pegasus mobile LiDAR and 360 photography

Optech Pegasus airborne LiDAR and Trimble TAC

Aerial and mobile and airborne LiDAR volumetry

Enhancing the Multi-purpose Cadastre

Multi-user applications:

Transparent property inventory

Parcel/building attributes

Tax modernization and fair valuation

Transportation planning and design

Public works applications

Hydrology modeling

Utility and infrastructure inventory

3D and Smart cities


Multi-sensor Configurations


Multiple Sensor Configurations

Simultaneous capture provides critical time coherency

Flexible mount configured to “plug and play”

Payload integrated to a single inertial and orientation solution

Rigorous geo-referencing of all sensor data

Eliminates disparities associated with multiple aircraft:

Changing environmental conditions

Multiple calibrations and associated inaccuracies

Missing critical data Optech Orion LiDAR, Fore, Aft, Nadir, Color infrared

digital cameras, weather probe, full motion video


Tank Farm High Definition Scanning (HDS)

Petroleum storage tank Farm in Mexico for CFE

HDS scanning and tank wall deformation modeling

BIM model integration

Tank wall deformation comparing HDS to as-built

HDS point cloud showing tank wall thickness

Panoramic photo of tanks in the Altamira Port, MX


Alternative Airborne Platforms


Innovative Platforms and Sensors


Conclusions


Conclusions, Opportunities, Actions

Growth – Maturing, yet growing market for traditional LiDAR

Innovation - Feature extraction, data dissemination, subject matter application integration, and more

Imagination - New applications only limited by one’s imagination

Integration – Multi-use point clouds in BIM, 3D / smart cities

Alternatives – Complementary UAV and small platforms

Think international – 90% of the world’s population outside the US

Advocate-Educate – Continually inform congress and public about the benefits of this profession

Point cloud supporting border migration study

Refinery point cloud for retro-fit engineering


Contact Information

Brian R. Raber, CMS, GISP, GLS

Vice President Merrick & Company

President Merrick LATAM Subsidiaries

(Mexico and Colombia)

[email protected]

Office: +1-303-353-3900

Cell: +1-720-320-4843

Co-mounted Leica LiDAR,

ITRES TABI-1800 Thermal

Imager, Trimble TAC camera

mailto:[email protected]

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