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Advances in Asset Inventory Integrating Spatial
Video Lidar Compass09 Dublin - June 25th
2009
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The Group

• Together with Spot Image, forms the Earth
  Observation division of Astrium Services
• European Group
• International partners customers
• Turnover (2007) 60 M
• Staff (2007) 350
• Astrium shareholdings in related companies
• Four main entities

Infoterra GmbH Friedrichshafen, Potsdam
Infoterra Ltd. Leicester, Farnborough
InfoterraHungary Budapest
Infoterra France SAS Toulouse, Sophia Antipolis
Infoterra GmbH (Germany)
Infoterra Ltd (UK) Subsidiary Infoterra Hungary
Infoterra France SAS (France)
Infoterra SGSA (España)
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Heritage Relationship

• First Commercial Company in UK to fly Lidar 1995
  (NRSC Ltd.)
• OPW - Lidar for Flood Modelling
• OS Ireland - Lidar processing
• Waterways Ireland/JBA - Lidar Orthophotos
• National Roads Authority Projects
• N17 Tuam to Claremorris
• N4 Newtownforbes Bypass
• Working with Compass since 2007
• Erdas Software Suite Re-seller
• Adopted Teaming approach in 2009
• Working on mutually beneficial projects

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Advances in Asset Inventory

• Conventional Capture
• On Foot
• Desktop Aerial Photography
• Low/Medium Resolution Video Camera(s)
• Manual Feature Extraction (despite promo videos)
• Why not capture 3D information as well?
• Automation?

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Infoterra Airborne Sensors

• Fixed wing and helicopter

Leica ADS40 (Camera) 15-100cm Pushbroom Wide Area
UltraCam X (Camera) 3-50cm Stereo Frame Wide
Specific Area
MIDAS (Oblique Camera) 5 x 22Mb cameras Nadir
4_at_ 45º
Gemini (Lidar) 15cm Z 4-12ppm Active
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Lidar Platforms

• Spaceborne (Radar)
• Airborne helicopter and plane
• Boat mounted
• Vehicle mounted (road rail)
• Ground Based
• On person

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Lidar Input to Products and Services

• Digital Terrain Models
• 3D Cityscapes
• Flood Modelling
• Noise/ Air Pollution Mapping
• Road/Rail Design
• Asset Inventory
• Asset Conditioning
• Survey Outputs structures, x-sections, long
  sections etc

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Optech Gemini - Lidar

• 33-167KHz Pulse rate
• 80-4,000 m Operating Altitude
• Vertical Accuracy 5cm
• Horizontal Accuracy 1/5,500 x altitude
• 4 Pulse Returns
• 0.25 0.80 mrad beam divergence
• Up to 30 points per m2
• Integrated 39Mb camera

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Vegetation Cover - Dense

• No obvious terrain visible from this one metre
  resolution satellite imagery

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LiDAR 4 Pulse Returns
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Lidar 8 ppm
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Lidar Based Products
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Flood Levels of risk
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Air Pollution Mapping in Traffic Canyons
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Noise Mapping
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Terrestrial Mobile Lidar Sensors

• Terrestrial sensor capability
• Mobile Sensor capability

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Terrestrial Laser Scan / Colourised Point Cloud
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Rapid Surveyor Mobile Laser Solution for Road
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Rapid Surveyor Installation on Rail Equipped
Land Rover
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3D Point Cloud Railway Environment
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Road Clearances Overview
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Clearances

• Bridges, overhead cables, vegetation etc.

6.01m
6.20m
6.15m
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Gulley Heights
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Hard surface profiles
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Highway Modelling 3D Point Cloud
Road Bridge Completed Model Render
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Highway Modelling Complete Rendered Model
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Urban Modelling
Detailed Modelling
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Urban Modelling Rendered Model
Detailed Modelling
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Street Asset Capture
XY Position Height Vertical Offset
Lighting Column
Road Signs
Illuminated Signs
Footpath
Road Edge
White Lines
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Rapid Surveyor 3D Point Cloud
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Rapid Surveyor Colourised 3D Point Cloud
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White Line Condition
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White Line Condition Classification
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Additional Data Available Long Section
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Additional Data Available Cross Section
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Additional Data Available
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Finalising Feature Extraction

• Automatic Collection of Roadside Assets
• By Feature
• Position
• Dimension
• Automatic White Line Condition
• Acceptance Thresholds
• DTM Generation
• Carriageway TIN
• Surface Undulation
• Surface Water flow
• Overgrown Vegetation

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Your contact
Toulouse31, avenue des Cosmonautes 31402
Toulouse Cedex 4 France Friedrichshafen Claude-D
ornier-Strasse 88090 Immenstaad Germany Leicester
Atlas House 41 Wembley Road Leicester,
LE31UT United Kingdom Dublin Block 8, Blackrock
Business Park Carysfort Avenue Blackrock,
Dublin Ireland
Martin Holt Phone [phone] Mobile
353 (0) 877533366 Mail martin.holt_at_infoterra-glo
bal.com info_at_infoterra-global.com
All the geo-information you need www.infoterra-gl
obal.com
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