Notes on UAVs, LIDAR, etc.

Lidar measurement

• Velodyne's: Lidar Puck
• 8k price
• Velodyne's: HDL-32E
• includes Garmin 
• Routescene http://www.routescene.com/products/product/routescene-lidarpod-technical-specifications/
• contains Velodyne's 35k usd sensor inside. but also spits out reasonable data. 
• if they used the puck it would be a good e2e solution.
• not sure if this is correct since hdl-32E already has much of that.
• Autonomoustuff
• box with 
• LIDAR sensor
• Inertial Measurement Unit
• Processing Unit
• Battery
• Post processing software
• Product good, price too large.
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UAVs

Fixed wing

Rotary

• DJI, S1000+, http://store.dji.com/spreading-wings/s1000-plus
• weighs around 4kg, liftoff weight 11kg. 
• price - 2.5 - 4.5k USD.
• http://www.xactsense.com/products/
• this is a running system as it should be. 
• could be expensive; the puck is 8000USD, comparable DJI is around 3-4k, then that all is put together - unclear what is producing, but it could be .las files that we need. so 2k more. Total - around 14k of price. Then add some margin.

Data

• National lidar dataset
• "Production of a conterminous US 1-meter dataset will begin in early 2015 and will increase in geographic coverage as new high-resolution data are acquired."
• this should satisfy all O' interest.
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