{"id":2197,"date":"2017-04-24T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2017-04-26T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:43:23","slug":"reality-capture-for-heavy-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/reality-capture-for-heavy-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Capture for Heavy Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Integrating Scan Data for Civil Construction | In the Innovation Zone at AU with Ed McCaffery\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kzLDGSmuNaY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to getting the lay of the land on your infrastructure construction site, more options are available than ever before. There are traditional surveying techniques, drones, and LIDAR scanning, which can create an accurate digital model of its surroundings in a few minutes. There\u2019s also mobile mapping, which can gather more than a million data points per second while travelling up to 40 mph.<\/p>\n<p>But the real advantage, according to Topcon\u2019s Ed McCaffery, comes from integrating data from these technologies quickly and easily to get a single cohesive picture. For the first time, that gives site managers the power to know in near-real time the exact conditions on the ground. McCaffery says the goal is \u201cthe continual representation of reality in heavy constructions projects.\u201d He shared recent developments in surveying and smart infrastructure on the Innovation Zone stage at Autodesk University Las Vegas 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/topcon_mccaffery.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2198\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/topcon_mccaffery-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/topcon_mccaffery-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/topcon_mccaffery.jpeg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With so many data collection options, \u201cI\u2019m always\u2026focusing on the right tool for the job,\u201d McCaffery says. \u201cA wrench is a perfectly good tool and I can probably bang nails with it, but if I\u2019m banging nails for a living, I\u2019m probably not going to want the wrench. We have applications for aerial, for mobile mapping, [laser] scanning, there\u2019s traditional survey equipment. And being able to easily, quickly integrate all these types of things will give me the data that I need so that I can actually see what\u2019s out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to getting the lay of the land on your infrastructure construction site, more options are available than ever before. There are traditional surveying techniques, drones, and LIDAR scanning, which can create an accurate digital model of its surroundings in a few minutes. There\u2019s also mobile mapping, which can gather more than a million data points per second while travelling up to 40 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4774,"featured_media":2200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-las-vegas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}