LiDAR in Caves

[Aaron Addison]

Our article on the terrestrial LiDAR work done in Mammoth Cave appears in this month's Civil Engineering Surveyor

http://mag.digitalpc.co.uk/fvx/ces/1104/

Details of this project will be presented during the Survey Cartography Session at NSS Convention this summer.

Cheers,

Aaron

[Extremeophile]

Thanks for sharing Aaron. This is amazing work. Anyone who hasn't seen this should not miss it at Convention - clearly the future of cave survey.

I can't wait until they make this technology helmet-mountable.

[John Lovaas]

Cool article, Aaron! Nice to see part of Ed's sheet(?) as a backdrop. It would be neat if the Park could send the LIDAR data output to a 3D printer- it would be a very cool tactile model for visitors to touch and see.

Here was the crux sentence for me:

"Despite the limitations mentioned above, the hardware for terrestrial LiDAR data collection appears to be well ahead ofavailable software solutions..."

Lotsa data points, not so many ways of working with it yet... but the future is limitless- if only that no one has written "PocketTopo for LeicaLIDAR" yet ;-)

[Aaron Addison]

Yes, that is a snippet of Ed's map. The final layout got reversed as the 3D model was supposed to be background, and the plan view the inset. I knew that they drove on the wrong side of the road in England..., guess layout instructions get reversed too!

The entire project was on the Historic Sheet.

AA