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Originally posted by jamesworrell: ↑

Costs very little to add the extra sensor in the grand scheme of things - pilot, fuel, plane - remain the same. Sensor cost and storage becomes a thing.

Aside from being a product on it's own, point cloud assists the reconstruction of the 3D data as well into meshes - ContextCapture etc will take laser + photos and mesh together to get a better 3D product overall.

You also start to get data under tree canopy - that leads further to AI/machine learning to do powerline analysis say - or bushfire load - or tree growth - or building footprint extraction - or flood modelling.

If they are flying regular missions and producing classified lidar products, machine learning products and feeding it all through to pointerra, the integration is pretty obvious. Pointerrra already offer snip-and-ship for point cloud - Nearmap do snip-and-ship (essentially) of 3D mesh and imagery. You might also imagine the pointerra api feeding data back to nearmap user interace - so instead of measurable obliques, you end up clicking on points in the cloud to measure. The data goes to pointerra for classication/feature extract.

The data is very much complementary.

We use off-the-shelf lidar for terrain models etc where we couldn't be bothered surveying. If the data is dense enough you might start to see all sorts of uses. Will put a bit of a rocket up Aerometrex and narrow the gap there.

About the only thing left for nearmap will be street-level capture ;-p

In terms of sensor payloads, to give an idea, a comparable sensor product might be Leica CityMapper - although I doubt Nearmap will be targetting the same image quality or point density out of the box.

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Hi James.

Thank you, I understand that as I did my masters in remote sensing. Don't get me wrong, I like LiDar, see the benefits 100%, but I haven't heard of Nearmap using lasers..? I admit I haven't looked into their technology portfolio too deeply but I thought it's all just imagery (not even sure about the spectral range tbh or the flight altitude). I know Aerometrex uses LiDar as I was in contact with them re. my work project but they seemed to be more like surveyors.

Cheers.

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