•The conservative benefits as used in the benefit/cost analyses. For the benefit/cost analysis, each Functional Activity has requirements and benefits linked to spatial files that define specific geographic areas for which the requirements and benefits pertain. The conservative benefits do not include the sampling of Functional Activities from county, regional, city and Tribal governments.
•The potential benefits that accompany explanations of why the conservative estimates are probably understated. These potential benefits are not used in the benefit/cost analysis because the requirements and benefits are not linked to spatial files that define specific geographic areas for which the requirements and benefits pertain. Limited benefits projections were made for county, regional, city and Tribal governments that did not participate in the state interviews/workshops.
Even these potential benefits are believed to be vastly understated and could be one or more order of magnitudes greater if the study had included the expected benefits of every county, region, city and Tribal government, and other industries nationwide."
"The savings to surveyors is not estimated and captured in this report but may be a significant savings nationally. Furthermore, as LiDAR data become available nationwide, individual citizens will be geo-enabled in 3-D, much as they are now geo-enabled in 2-D with their in-car navigation devices and cell phones. Such benefits to individuals, nationwide, may also be considerable."
I wonder how Dewberry came to the decision to pay Pointerra US$600,000 in ACV when they've finished uploading the LiDAR data for Florida? US$600,000 in ACV, just for one state. How many more states might sign up over time if Florida proves to be successful?
Here's a few other articles. Probably not that interesting, but I'll share them anyway:
