3D Laser Mapping to attend 5th Annual TerraScan European User Event

3D Laser Mapping, the UK based specialists in laser measurement technology and software, is to present a selection of operational case studies to an international audience of surveying, planning and GIS professionals. Dr Graham Hunter, Managing Director of 3D Laser Mapping will demonstrate the latest developments and capabilities of both terrestrial and airborne laser scanning solutions to delegates at the 5th Annual TerraScan European User Event taking place from the 8th to 14th of March 2007 in Krakow, Poland. This annual event attracts a European wide audience of commercial, government and academic users of TerraScan the dedicated software solution for processing laser-scanning data from Terrasolid. 

“I am pleased to be asked to present to this audience of laser mapping specialists,” said Dr Graham Hunter, Managing Director of 3D Laser Mapping. He continued, “Recent developments in both the hardware and software associated with laser mapping have led to some exciting new products and applications of the technology, such as our own high speed vehicle mounted solution StreetMapper, which are bound to be of interest to, and hopefully spark discussion amongst, the delegates.”

TerraScan software, from Terrasolid, is designed to read the millions of individual point measurements captured by laser scanning, create 3D visualisations of the data and enable the user to manipulate the data classifying points and creating vector models. The annual user meeting provides a platform for training, networking and introduction to advances in both the software and associated hardware and their real world application.

3D Laser Mapping is a UK based specialist in laser scanning solutions and the leading distributor of the TerraScan suite of software solutions from Finnish company Terrasolid. Laser scanning, as the name suggests, uses lasers to measure the position of objects and features relative to a known point. Using static, vehicle or airborne mounted sensors the time taken for a laser beam to be ‘bounced back’ from an object or features to the unit is recorded. This time, the known value of the speed of light and calibration information for the unit is then used to calculate the accurate, absolute position of the object or feature.