Swallowneck
Member
With the recent activity on UK Caving regarding Lidar and cave surveying, let get a new thread going on the this subject and possibly others such as Photogrametry.
Historically Lidar kit has been stupidly expensive and has not really been within the realms of your average cavers budget.
However with the arrival of much cheaper Lidar units such as that designed into the Caveatron device, owning such equipment is now a possibility for most people. (if you can build one that is)
For the last year or so I and several others have been slowly trying to see what we can do with Lidar data top produce what we would call a normal survey i.e a plan and elevation on paper. Some success has been had and have even combined trad & Lidar data.
The Lidar data produces some great 3D cave images with fly troughs etc, think Roo Walters amazing film of Tham Luang cave but can it cut the mustard when it come to producing a traditional survey? I personally think not at the moment but maybe the combined Lidar/Disto Caveatron device is a game changer.
Lets get discussing.
Historically Lidar kit has been stupidly expensive and has not really been within the realms of your average cavers budget.
However with the arrival of much cheaper Lidar units such as that designed into the Caveatron device, owning such equipment is now a possibility for most people. (if you can build one that is)
For the last year or so I and several others have been slowly trying to see what we can do with Lidar data top produce what we would call a normal survey i.e a plan and elevation on paper. Some success has been had and have even combined trad & Lidar data.
The Lidar data produces some great 3D cave images with fly troughs etc, think Roo Walters amazing film of Tham Luang cave but can it cut the mustard when it come to producing a traditional survey? I personally think not at the moment but maybe the combined Lidar/Disto Caveatron device is a game changer.
Lets get discussing.