Currently autonomous vehicles with some exceptions rely on on-board sensors for the detailed aspects of navigation. But many believe that high precision maps, which contain significantly more detailed information and true-ground-absolute accuracy than current road […]
Point clouds are fine for visualization to provide context, but to be really useful they need to be classified. Feature extraction, as the process is often referred to, is currently a mostly manual process that […]
I have just spent an incredible three days in Houston at the SPAR3D 2017 conference. There is so much going on right now in the 3D world with several key technologies just coming to fruition […]
At SPAR 2013Ron Singh, Engineering Automation Manager/Chief of Surveys, Oregon Department of Transportation (DoT) made a startling proposal that would stand the traditional highway construction process on its head by making the post-construction as-built survey […]
Google has had a fleet of 10 or more driverless cars on the roads in Florida, Nevada, and California for a couple of years that by now have logged over a million driverless miles. The […]
At SPAR 2013 I had the opportunity to hear very forward looking presentations by Ron Singh, Chief of Surveys/Geometronics Manager at the Oregon Department of Transportation. What Ron sees in the future and what motivates […]
At SPAR 2013 I had the opportunity to hear a very forward looking presentation by Ron Singh, Chief of Surveys/Geometronics Manager at the Oregon Department of Transportation. It was even more impressive because Ron’s background […]