Terrestrial Laser Scanning
Our terrestrial laser scanning service delivers a safer, faster and more cost-effective alternative to traditional measurement techniques. This makes it ideally suited to complex environments, in particular plant facilities. This technology eliminates the need for surveyors to physically access hazardous areas and significantly reduces their on-site time, shutdowns and equipment costs. Terrestrial scanning applications range from infrastructure and mining to engineering, construction and plant projects. The high-resolution 3D images we generate facilitate terrain mapping and thereby allowing for early detection of issues. And this alone, ultimately saves time and costs across a project’s lifecycle.
Utilising Terrestrial Laser Scanning over Traditional Methods
- Reduces safety controls imposed and improves project timeline and cost factors.
- This method delivers fast, safe, accurate and cost-effective results, especially when measuring complex areas such as plant environments.
- When plans of an object or structure are not reliable or available.
- Laser scanning removes the need to physically climb, reach, or expose our surveyors to unsafe environments to measure the items of interest.
- Reduces time required on-site, minimises shutdowns and expensive equipment requirements.
Applications for terrestrial laser scanning for infrastructure, long-range and mining include:
- Roads and rail infrastructure
- Mining deformation analysis
- Stockpile auditing
Applications for terrestrial laser scanning for engineering, plant, construction projects include:
- Heritage
- Hazardous environments
- Feature surveying and asset mapping
- Engineering and construction
- Deformation and analysis surveys
Applications for terrestrial laser scanning for plant and processing include:
- On-shore projects
Applications for terrestrial laser scanning for scan to BIM include:
- Conversion of existing conditions point clouds into usable BIM elements.
- Capable of delivering in IFC and proprietary formats (Revit, AecoSIM).
- Navisworks deliverables allow for software-free inspection and clash detection for advanced users.
Uses of this data
The output from our scanners can be imported into a number of 3D CAD software packages for creation of 3D models, view some of our 3D Model projects.
Benefits of Terrestrial Laser Scanning Services
- Our terrestrial laser scanning services provide high resolution 3D images of surfaces to deliver terrain and landscape mapping.
- Highlight the differences between your existing model and new model.
- Our innovative capture methods allow us to scan anything and everything, safely.
- Ultra-fast, high accuracy and efficient capture methods reduces on-site time for our surveyors.
- Reduce costs by reducing the need for multiple people to visit a site to ‘take a few measurements’ through our comprehensive deliverables and visualisation packages.
- Problems such as rework, variations, clashes and staff downtime, can be avoided at an early stage through a single time investment in up-to-date survey data. This information is invaluable and useful throughout the life of the project, paying itself off through reducing rework, variations, clashes and staff downtime.
- Advanced warning of interference and clash detection.
- Laser scanning lends itself to site capture during normal operation, which can be done pre-shutdown to provide the information needed by maintenance personnel before it is required.
- Point cloud data can be integrated directly into your CAD or BIM workflow or provide you with drawings for planning discussions.
- Ultra-fast acquisition rates (1 million points/sec).
- High accuracy 1mm to 6mm.
- Remote inspection.
- Site installation is completed without issue.
Why choose Land Surveys for your terrestrial laser scanning requirements?
The team at Land Surveys have the technical and practical expertise, utilising the latest technology and procedures for terrestrial laser scanning. We work over diverse platforms, allowing us to provide you with the best tailored solution to your desired results.