TerraForm 3D

TerraForm 3D recently flew a subdivision project for a surveyor. 40 acres of trees with a highway running through the middle. 52 million data points collected. Filtered it down to 217,000 so his cad program could handle all the data. Gave him a surface model and 1 ft contours.
I asked him how long it would have taken him to collect the data conventionally. He said about 6 days on a 100' grid to cut through all the trees and record the data.
I flew it twice in 2 different directions in 3 hours. He supplied the ground truth points. One day to process and deliver models. He was then able to give it to the developer. He made money. I made money. Win-Win situation.
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I've added some images of the Lidar project I recently posted.
The first image is an orthomosaic generated from the images recorded while collected the lidar. It is overlaid on a Google Earth map. The next 2 are colorized Lidar points created from the orthomosaic. One is a 3D view and the other is colorized point cloud overlay on a satellite image. You may notice the point cloud images are a little more grainy that the Google Earth. The overlay in Google Earth is from images whereas the others are actual data points.
Having the data colorized can be useful when trying to identify areas of actual onsite data as opposed to a 2 year satellite map. You have to know you want this before the flight because you have to change flight parameters. This type of flight takes longer which would increase the costs.