.

Geoinformatics-8-2008
conference tioned the growing importance of the software components in leica s portfolio, recognizing the customer s need for not only getting the rich data, but also sharing the rich data . leica offers their clients an integrated product portfolio that combines metrology, geosystems and geospatial solutions. hexagon and leica geosystems therefore decided to do both hardware and software components, a decision that seems to have paid off, as one conference visitor stated, the software has finally caught up with the hardware. talking about leica geospatial solutions, dold stated that we drive the innovation to improve field and office productivity . not only is there more and more information available in organisations, people want to share and manage these data as well through time and their organisation. this increases the value of information, and to manage the data, the erdas company launched erdas apollo 2009, a geospatial business system that was also presented during the conference. the conference was not just about successes though: during the conference some of the presentations focused on achieving success particularly in the face of the challenges caused by the current economic turmoil. two panel discussions were about how to effectively market high definition surveying both internally and externally today, and the challenge of attracting and recruiting new staff for laser scanning companies and departments. several of leica s scanning products were discussed in detail, such as the leica scanstation 2 and the leica hds6000, together with the accompanying software, cyclone and cloudworx. these products were also on display in various booths outside the conference juergen dold, president of leica s geospatial solutions division halls. the purpose for which leica s hds products are used varies greatly, as do the type of organisations that use these products. multinational organisations as well as singleperson companies were present to share their experiences, problems and solutions. best overall performance of tested pulse scanners; it was the only scanner of this type having noise below 2mm over the whole range of white and gray reflectivity. it also had the best accuracy based on spatial distances between spheres. modelled point clouds hds plan contest for the first time, leica introduced a plan contest so that conference attendees could share their work with others. electronic and hard copies of drawings and plans were reviewed in three categories, namely plant , civil survey and buildings/heritage . the winners are: andreas marbs from the fachhochschule mainz (the university of applied sciences), germany, discussed the latest performance tests of the leica scanstation2 (pulse scanner) and leica hds6000 (phase scanner). the university of applied sciences compared the performance of both scanners with a list of other brands tested. to do this, they chose a user s approach to measure the accuracy of the laser scanners. for this they compared the results of modelled point clouds against known geometry in the object space, verified by precise surveying methods. the result is a comprehensive report about scanner performance. the hds6000 turned out to have the best overall performance of all phase scanners tested, with an average accuracy at close range (<10 meters), excellent accuracy at mid range (10 to 25 meters), and by far the lowest noise (up to 25m) of all tested phase scanners. the leica scanstation2 showed the building/heritage first prize: allen & company second prize: bhc rhodes civil/survey first prize: manhard consulting ltd. second prize: dynasty group plant first prize: allen & company second prize: rls group latest news? visit www.geoinformatics.com paul walsh of statoilhydro 47 december 2008
Powered by fluidbook tm