Advanced computer design tools have merged with high-definition laser camera scan data to produce integrated images that are particularly useful for outage and maintenance planning. A 3-D tool that ...

Scan to BIM is the process of converting laser-scanned point cloud data into a Building Information Model (BIM), most commonly created in Autodesk Revit. BIMPROVE delivers Scan to BIM models at LOD ...

The researchers are now able to further increase the amplitude of the scan angle multiplier by making additional changes inside their invention. They have started a company, called Pacific Optica, to ...

Is a contact wire missing or is it faulty? What‘s the situation in front of the entrance to a railway station or a tunnel? A 3D laser scanner can increase the train‘s safety and reliability. Laser ...

Laser scanning technology continues to gain momentum in the construction industry for its ability to help Building Teams collect tons of highly accurate information in a very short period of time.

A 3-D laser measurement and imaging technology used for years in fossil and nuclear plants could be an effective means to assess the ability of emergency core cooling systems to provide long-term core ...

Matthew Shaw and William Trossell document the world with lasers. When the duo founded ScanLab Projects in 2011, they were a pair of freshly minted architecture school graduates who'd gotten their ...

First high-resolution laser survey of ancient site shows importance of solstices and efforts to make those events more dramatic. Photonics technology has revealed in unprecedented detail the efforts ...

Remember that feeling when you first looked down on a microscope? Now you can re-live it but in slightly different way. [Venkes] came up with a way to make a Laser Scanning Microscope (LSM) with ...