ABSTRACT
MAPTEK’s revolutionary I-SiTE 3D Laser Imaging System, presented in this paper, is a new means of collecting 3D information quickly and directly from any large scale environment. The system records accurately the location of features and surfaces in areas such as urban and industrial settings and mine sites, both surface and underground. Points sampled from the scene are used to build a data set which is a complete 3D rendering of the scene. By interactively viewing the data using the built-in software, it is possible to see the scene in ways that would not usually be possible. While laser scanning systems have been available for some time for small scale engineering tasks, their use in larger scale environments is not widespread.
