Virtualizing USS Iowa
Another project involving the virtualization of things, this time a main battery turret on board the USS Iowa will begin in early December 2018. A team from Carahsoft, Autodesk, HTS […]
Category Archives: Technology
C-130 Scan
A team from Autodesk & ECI laser recently scanned a USAF C-130 at the Orlando Airport. The objective was to create a very accurate model of the aircraft that will […]
Bat Caves of Northern Arizona
Laser scan, model, and analyze a bat cave to learn about White Nose Syndrome, a fungus that has killed 5 million bats to date.
Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board.
SONAR
Sonar (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.
LiDAR
LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging, also LADAR) is an optical remote sensing technology that can measure the distance to, or other properties of a target by illuminating the target with light, often using pulses from a laser.
Ground Penetrating RADAR [GPR]
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a geophysical method that uses radar pulses to image the subsurface.
Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System [RTK GPS]
Real Time Kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation is a technique used in land survey and in hydrographic survey based on the use of carrier phase measurements of the GPS, GLONASS and/or Galileo signals where a single reference station provides the real-time corrections, providing up to centimetre-level accuracy.
