How LiDAR Mobile Mapping works - Leica TRK

I love the idea of teaching kids practical things.

Amazingly, I hope one day to go to such a great event. Greetings from Reynosa,Mexico

I recently worked a project using the TRK NEO 500, the next step down from the one they demo here. We did hundreds of miles of National Forest roads in CA and OR. It's fantastically capable, when it works right. Long story short.... That Leica stuff is buggy as all heck. Like the first few years of windows 10 amounts of bugginess. It seems to be really good though when it does work out well, it just takes some perseverance. If you boot that system up and it already has any data on the drives, you've got a 50ish percent chance it will work. Which sucks when you're out in the field and don't have time to dump the drives between scans, so, plan to restart it at least once after every cold boot before you can begin scanning. It also occasionally just restarts itself and you have to start over. Sometimes, if you're quick enough and constantly watching the screen, you can catch the error that caused it. About half of ours were some weird API not available type errors. Or it would sometimes think something wasn't connected that was - a restart without touching the cables would often fix it. What I'm saying is, if you are working anywhere without really good cell signal, it's going to be a headache, plan extra restarting and alignment time. And good luck with the pegasus office suite of software. It's getting better, but still fails half of what we ask it to do automatically and we've had to revert to using the induvial inertial explorer part of the program for like half the roads we scanned. --- this MAY be due to the base station we used not being Leica branded, but I can't figure out how to prove it. 😅 We also tried doing a test of scanning in a field that used to be a golf course, lots of rolling hills and some trees, and the data collection looked perfect in the field, even shows the tracks on the tablet/laptop afterward, but when we try to run it through Pegasus, there's no point cloud data... The files seem to be there, but aren't the right size or something?... I dunno, their tech support fed the office some BS and said basically we'd have to go back and scan it again. I will say this, it only ever bugged out and made us start over at the beginning of scans, or within the first hundred or so yards. So, it wasn't like we'd get 10 miles in and it would spaz out, so I'm thankful for that.😅 and the battery life is quite good. You can fully expect 6 hours of actual scanning per box, we never needed more than just over one battery for any given day, and we scanned like 30+ miles several days. We learned to just leave the thing all day long, saved us that hassle of rebooting after booting nonsense. and KUDOS to whoever designed the cooling on this thing, it held up like a champ in 100+F days.

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Anything cool at the Trimble booth?

Amazing technology! Is It possible to transport the Leica TRK batteries on an airplane flight??

I wonder how one can map a whole city with a Wingtra drone legally... I mean, the drone is 3,7kg, flies BVLOS at 120m and probably out of reach of the controller. Do you do reserve the whole airspace and equip parachutes or ??

Demonios!! Equipos de primerísima tecnología, imposible para nosotros los de a pie.😅

there is low cost solution for trk?