LiDAR Imagery
Airborne 1
300 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 1060
El Segundo, CA 90245
310-414-7400
Airborne 1 provides LiDAR and oblique imagery services for a wide variety of industries. Recently acquired by GeoDigital International, Airborne 1 now offers full-spectrum mapping from turnkey aerial and mobile services to sensor rentals and fractional ownership plans enabling geospatial professionals to enter the LiDAR market without incurring the cost of owning a sensor. Airborne 1’s digital mapping services include a dedicated team of LiDAR experts, survey coordination and project management, data processing and quality assurance/quality control.
Applied Imagery
8070 Georgia Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-589-4004
Applied Imagery makes LiDAR exploitation software, the Quick Terrain Modeler, which enables interactive modeling and analysis of enormous 3-D point clouds and digital elevation models. The software is simple to use, visually intuitive, valuable in both Department of Defense and civilian applications, and available in 32- and 64-bit versions.
Ball Aerospace & Technologies
1600 Commerce St.
Boulder, CO 80301
303-939-6100
Ball Aerospace develops and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, and data exploitation systems. The company delivers unique advanced geospatial intelligence data exploitation algorithms and analytical tools. Ball built the WorldView-2 remote sensing satellite, which launchedOct. 8, 2009, and returned the highest resolution commercial imagery available 11 days later. The company has begun developing WorldView-3, DigitalGlobe’s next high-performance imaging satellite.
Exelis Visual Information Solutions
4990 Pearl East Circle
Boulder, CO 80301
303-786-9900
Exelis Visual Information Solutions offers complete software solutions and integrated custom services to help professionals make important discoveries through the analysis of geospatial imagery and data. E3De, a geospatial software environment for analyzing and extracting 3-D information from LiDAR data, has the advanced tools you need to create photorealistic 3-D visualizations, extract 3-D features from a scene or produce 3-D products and layers from raw LiDAR point cloud data.
Fugro EarthData
7320 Executive Way
Frederick, MD 21704
301-948-8550
Fugro EarthData operates multiple airborne LiDAR systems to provide a full complement of solutions that meet customer needs for fast and accurate terrain mapping. Applications for LiDAR mapping services include floodplain mapping, forest inventory, transportation and utility corridor mapping, and land-use/land-cover classification, among others.
Global Marketing Insights
6801 Brecksville Road, Suite 206
Cleveland, OH 44131
216-525-0600
Since 1997, Global Marketing Insights (GMI), a woman-owned firm, has provided Geospatial Business Intelligence Experts™ for a wide range of aerospace, geospatial and remote sensing strategic business planning, sales and marketing implementation services and highly customized market research services. These services include developing targeted product/service market studies and competitive market research for government agencies and private-sector firms whose goal is to increase their market share. As authors of the USGS and NOAA 2005-2020 International Remote Sensing Studies for Asia, Africa, North America and Europe (with South America in progress), GMI possesses the world’s largest database of remote sensing research (available in online interactive maps) and social and cultural trend information by country.
Kucera International
38133 Western Parkway
Willoughby, OH 44094
440-975-4230
Kucera International provides a full range of aerial remote sensing, photogrammetric mapping, and related geomatic services to government and private clients throughout the United States and abroad. Kucera has full in-house digital vertical and oblique aerial photography, LiDAR surveying,GPSground surveying, orthophotography, terrain/surface modeling, planimetric/topographic mapping, cadastral/land use mapping, andGISconversion and support capabilities.
Leica Geosystems
5051 Peachtree Corners Circle, Suite 250
Norcross, GA 30092
770-326-9536
Leica Geosystems provides airborne imaging and LiDAR sensor solutions. The company’s workflow solutions—from flight planning to data delivery—help customers get better results faster and at lower cost.
Merrick & Company
2450 S. Peoria St.
Aurora, CO 80014
303-751-0741
Merrick offers airborne LiDAR mapping services, including project planning and consulting, data acquisition and processing complimented by a full range of data fusion and analysis capabilities. By providing a unique combination of comprehensive geospatial capabilities, extensive project experience and advanced data collection equipment, Merrick can deliver cost-effective, accurate elevation data products.
Optech
300 Interchange Way
Vaughan, ON L4K 5Z8
Canada
905-660-0808
Optech is the world leader in developing, manufacturing and supporting advanced LiDAR and imaging-based survey instruments. Optech offers complete LiDAR and camera solutions in airborne terrestrial mapping, laser bathymetry and photogrammetry for applications such as small, low-power platforms; low-altitude corridor mapping; high-altitude wide-area mapping; coastal mapping; and multispectral/thermal imaging.
QCoherent Software
1880 Office Club Pointe
Colorado Springs, CO 80920
719-386-6900
QCoherent provides high-capacity LIDAR software. The company’s extensive knowledge of LIDAR and geospatial software has been applied to the LP360 ArcGIS® extension; Classify for LP360; Extractor for LP360; and LIDAR Server, a Web-based distribution system for LIDAR data.
Riegl USA
7035 Grand National Drive, Suite 100
Orlando, FL 32819
407-248-9927
Riegl USA is recognized as the performance leader in the LiDAR mobile mapping, civil infrastructure, airborne scanning, hydrographic, mining and terrestrial industries. The company’s instruments are well known for their ruggedness and reliability under demanding environmental conditions. Riegl’s 3-D scanners offer a wide array of performance characteristics and serve as a platform for continuing “innovation in 3-D” for the laser scanning business.
Sanborn
1935 Jamboree Drive, Suite 100
Colorado Springs, CO 80920
719-593-0093
Fast, accurate and cost-effective Sanborn LiDAR products and services are available for projects ranging from flood plain mapping to 3-D buildings/city modeling. Leveraging the latest in cutting-edge LiDAR technologies, Sanborn aerial LiDAR, mobile LiDAR and terrestrial LiDAR solutions provide high-quality data for all LiDAR applications.
Surdex
520 Spirit of St. Louis Blvd.
Chesterfield, MO 63005
636-368-4400
Surdex supplies accurate and precise geospatial information—on time and within budget—to a diverse client base. The company provides high-quality mapping services that include aerial image acquisition, LiDAR acquisition and processing, photogrammetric mapping, digital orthophotography, data hosting and geographic information solutions.
Terrapoint USA
25216 Grogans Park Drive
The Woodlands, TX, 77380
281-364-4080
Terrapoint delivers cost-effective and high-quality solutions to meet the most demanding geospatial requirements. With intimate knowledge of LiDAR technology, a unique focus on customer satisfaction, and state-of-the-art operational flexibility—with multiple collection platforms (fixed-wing, rotary and vehicular)—Terrapoint offers data acquisition and processing methods that exceed our diverse clients’ expectations.
Terrasolid
Kanavaranta 7 B
00160 Helsinki
Finland
+358 500 445 179
Terrasolids, TerraScan, TerraMatch, TerraPhoto and TerraModeler are software solutions for handling airborne and mobile LiDAR data. Terrasolid’s software solutions are used in more than 90 countries, with more than 2,500 TerraScan licenses sold. Terrasolid has been working with laser-scanned point clouds for more than 10 years.
Tiltan Systems Engineering
21 Yagia Kapaim St.
Kiriyat Arye
Petach Tikva, 49130
Israel
+972-3-9217717 or 212-372-7255 (U.S. sales)
Tiltan Systems Engineering provides LiDAR processing and image-generation systems and services. The company offers TLiD software for fast, automated LiDAR data processing, as well as TView andILXsoftware engines for 3-D/2-D applications, LiDAR processing services, visual database creation services and visual 3-D applications.
Trimble Navigation Ltd.
935 Stewart Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
408-481-8000
Trimble’s GeoSpatial Division provides hardware and software for aerial and land mobile mapping, including ruggedized aerial metric cameras and complete turn-key camera/laser scanner systems for airplanes, helicopters and land vehicles. The GeoSpatial Division now offers customers large-area geospatial data capture and processing solutions for a growing number of applications, including transportation and utilities and energy transmission and distribution industries. The software solutions include Trimble Trident Analyst, INPHO and eCognition.
Tuck Mapping Solutions
4632 Aerial Way
Big Stone Gap, VA 24219
276-523-4669
Tuck Mapping Solutions is a leader in the aerial mapping industry and recognized for innovation and creativity in providing solutions to client needs. The company provides ground surveys; photogrammetry from fixed-wing aircraft; or high-accuracy LiDAR, imagery or thermal from one of our three rotary-wing platforms.
Velodyne Lidar
345 Digital Drive
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
408-465-2800
The Velodyne HDL-64E S2 is a 64-element LiDAR sensor that delivers a 360-degree HFOV and a 26.8-degree VFOV. The sensor generates more than 1.3 million distance points per second. Applications for the HDL-64E S2 include terrestrial and marine autonomous vehicles, robotics, 3-D mapping, security and surveying.