Intergraph Promotes LiDAR Data Management and Exploitation

At this year’s Rocket City Geospatial Conference, Hexagon companies Intergraph and Leica Geosystems conducted a comprehensive LiDAR workshop that illustrated the power and utility of this burgeoning technology, and showcased combined tools that unlock the value of its data. The series of presentations are now available on-demand.

Disaster response was a key theme of the conference, reflecting the tornado outbreak throughout Alabama this past spring. The theme was echoed in workshop presentations that explored the advantages of using point clouds for disaster planning, response, impact assessment, and recovery efforts. Other highlighted applications benefiting from the use of LiDAR included transportation management and the remote detection of taxable construction by local governments.

Leica Geosystems introduced the inner workings of LiDAR and the resultant point clouds, outlining the benefits offered over other remote sensing technologies. Intergraph presented software products (ERDAS and GeoMedia) that enable organizations to leverage LiDAR and point clouds and which, by working together, form an integrated system capable of managing an organization’s entire LiDAR workflow.

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