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January 13, 2014, Virtual Geomatics featured at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2014 on the use Mapping Grade LiDAR Point Cloud for Design - read more…
June 17, 2013 Virtual Geomatics appoints John Clark as VP of Business Development - read more…
August 21, 2012, AHMCT or Advanced Highway Maintenance & Construction Technology Center attached to UC Davis publishes a workflow using VG4D Software Suite for Roadway Engineering - read more…
August 11, 2012, FHA’s Central Federal Lands Highway Division finds VG4D Software’s filtering and editing tools a right fit for their application – read more …
July 23, 2012, Virtual Geomatics is pleased to announce the release of its SmartLiDAR Explorer lite and Explorer core software along with advanced add-on modules. (See press release)
May 15, 2012, Ramesh Sridharan, Chief Technologist, Virtual Geomatics, made a presentation on Efficient Workflows for Large LiDAR datasets at Bentley BeTogether Conference.
May 4, 2012, Virtual Geomatics’ Software is being used in Lidar mapping of Minneapolis - Duluth high speed rail corridor. Leading engineering consultants appointed to process lidar data for the Northern Lights Express (NLX) railway have chosen Virtual Geomatics LiDAR Explorer to their process lidar point cloud and imagery data. The planned NLX rail system would connect Duluth and Minneapolis, a distance of approximately 155 miles (www.northernlightsexpress.org).
April 5, 2012, Recent enhancements made to Virtual Geomatics’ SmartLiDAR products, are unveiled at the SPAR International Conference at the Woodlands (see abstract).
March 29, 2012, Milan, Italy. Having won the contract to collect and process lidar for the 12,000 km highway expansion project in Brazil, Sineco, Italy's premier group has elected to use Virtual Geomatics LiDAR Explorer in their end-to end processing. Weighing the scope of the project deliverables, Sineco chose our SmartLiDAR Explorer, thanks to its advanced automatic classification, rapid roadside asset extraction, one click contour generation and cross-section profile generation, to mention a few.
February 27, 2012, Moscow, Russia. Spearheaded by Jena Instruments, the Russian Railways will use Virtual Geomatics software solution in their 3D modeling of their rail network. This multi-year project involves processing hundreds of terrabytes of point cloud data, and Virtual Geomatics SmartLiDAR Explorer was a preferred choice, as it handles large data files. Virtual Geomatics’ software also carries easy portability of the processed data into popular CAD tools, namely the Autodesk Civil-3D, Infrastructure Modeler; Bentley’s Microstation and InRail software.
January 27, 2012, Emirate of Al-Ain, UAE uses Virtual Geomatics LiDAR Analyzer software to process their city roadway and infrastructure data. Al-Ain – After extensive evaluation and comparison with competing products, the city of Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, has selected Virtual Geomatics’ SmartLiDAR Complete solution, to update their Emirate wide road map and 3D-City model.
January 12, 2012 At the ILMF 2012 show in Denver, CO, Virtual Geomatics unveiled its new workflow for electric power line applications