This particular property is complex and
it's there's a number of trails and
seating areas that are hard to find,
since we had this equipment we thought
we could do a much more intensive
mapping if we use the terrestrial based
lidar scanner. It has different man-made
features at the same time there are
different kinds of vegetation and it's a
good training site for the students to
come and that's really an awesome place
for learning and training. We can import
the results computers and these results
help us to find the location of the
different features both man-made and
also different vegetations and find the
place of that and if anything's happened
like any hurricane or anything it helped
us to find the previous location of
these features. This particular unit also
has has the active sensor which is the
lidar scanner which measures any point
as well as its intensity value and
builds a three-dimensional model but it
also has a traditional camera on it that
will take imagery and then using the
software built by Leica will Drake the
imagery over all of the features that it
finds, they're used commonly with a range
finders for like golfers some of those
units use light frequencies to range but
they just use a single pulse this
machine uses many pulses continually in
a as the Machine moves around in a
circle so you have an entire model of
what you were looking at rather than
just a single point this type of
technology for it's used in this scanner
fairly new only about two years old from
the Leica corporations Auburn University
is very fortunate to have a unit this
advanced with this kind of software
package it's a it makes offering one of
the premier universities in the country.
