Some areas are simply too dangerous or difficult to reach through traditional scanning means. Mines containing dangerous gases deep beneath the earth, highways busy with traffic, bridges and skyscrapers located high above the ground present intimidating challenges to any surveyor both in terms of accessibility and safety risk.
Long range 3D scanning using laser technology makes it easy to scan any object of any size in any environment accurately and conveniently. It allows you to compile data in complex cavities, allowing for digital terrain models and continuous slope monitoring. It enables the collection of high-density 3D geospatial data, enabling the 3D scanning of large scale, complex entities such as tunnels and mines. Inspections can include both the inside and outside of the tunnel or mines, as well as natural environments for inspection and design purposes.
The long range nature of the scanning simplifies the process while improving safety. Surveyors & engineers aren’t exposed to risk by entering the environment. Lasers deliver the data while the mining engineer works to implement it in an understandable fashion. Not only is the process safer, but also immensely more accurate, showing you the actual dimensions of what’s there, not just what should be there.
3D scanning vastly improves the accuracy of data gathered contour maps and cavity models by delivering the data in an accurate digital form that eliminates the guess work. You know the exact measures of the land, the highway, or the cavern walls through laser readouts without risking the lives or safety of your personnel.
Using the accurate data conveniently achieved through the laser scanning, engineers can accurately design theoretical tunnels and create CAD models of the site’s actual conditions, scanning the data down to universally usable CAD models.
Even mapping the precise location of a power transformer using traditional surveying means can be difficult and dangerous. Mapping an underground tunnel may simply prove to be impossible. Laser technology simplifies the process safely, delivering a higher degree of accuracy with less risk and cost.
Images can even capture the natural color of the areas being scanned, allowing for the creation of very realistic models.
Nothing is out of reach with laser technology. Recent developments make laser scanning much more affordable and adaptable, increasing safety together with improved accuracy and cost efficiency.
