Tennessee and Florida Departments of Transportation recently selected LP360 as their LIDAR point cloud analysis tool. Both DOT’s cited ease of use and that LP360 works easily inside of ArcGIS as some of the main determinants in their selection of LP360. Other factors in Tennessee DOT’s selection was LP360’s breakline tools and the ability to…
We are pleased to announce that the COWI Group, headquartered in Denmark, has selected the GeoCue workflow management suite to manage its LIDAR data production operations. As one of the leading mapping companies in the world, offering services in surveying, mapping, GIS, 3D city modelling and land registry, COWI is ideally suited to leverage the…
Mr. Chris Trice, Sr. GIS Specialist City of Boulder and Lewis Graham, CTO GeoCue Group, recently presented a webinar on the topological impact of the recent flooding in Boulder, Colorado. This extremely popular webinar (around 300 attended) included an informal discussion of the flood event as well as some insight into the acquisition of both…
LIDAR datasets freely available from multiple providers via the Internet make an excellent source for working with LIDAR data in LP360? In addition, with the new volumetric analysis tools and some additional analysis tools already found in LP360, these free source datasets can make for a convenient means of performing change detection in project areas.…
Interview with Chad Quinn, GIS Coordinator, City of O’Fallon Illinois Tell me about the City of O’Fallon (size, location, things you like about it and you think are special…). The City itself is less than 15 miles squared with a population of 28,281 as of the 2010 Census. We are located in the St. Louis…
We have a long history at GeoCue of working with companies and organizations from down under. Our LP360 for ArcGIS continues to find widespread adoption in Australian firms and government agencies, and our GeoCue workflow management suite is deployed to support production operations in the very active airborne LIDAR market in the region. However, this…
Final products can be exported from LIDAR data using either LP360 command line executables or the LP360 Export Wizard. Some export functions and resulting products include, but are not limited to: merging multiple LAS files into one LAS file, exporting LAS versions to different LAS versions, exporting from LAS to ASCII XYZ files, and exporting…
GeoCue has had a long association with the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) where the John A. Dutton e-Education program in the department of Geography uses LP360 in their on-line LIDAR training program. Two of the instructors, Ms. Karen Schuckman and Mr. Mike Renslow, are very well known throughout the LIDAR and photogrammetry communities. Mike…
You can do part of a synoptic QA/QC on LIDAR data using either LP360 command line executables or the Point Cloud Statistics Extractor, which is one of the Point Cloud Tasks found within the LP360 GUI. Some general QA/QC information that can be gathered includes, but is not limited to, projection information, GPS time format,…
LIDAR data oftentimes requires preparation before further analysis can be completed on the data. LP360 has six command line executables which can be used for preparing LIDAR data before adding it to LP360 for Windows or the LP360 for ArcGIS extension. When installed in the default folder, these preparatory LP360 command line executables may be…
