Optech’s Lidar Workflow Solutions workshop a great success

Toronto, Canada, October 14, 2010

Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar survey instruments, is pleased to announce the highly successful conclusion of its Lidar Workflow Solutions workshop held October 4, 2010, In Cologne, Germany.

The workshop included presentations on Optech's latest hardware and software releases, including the Optech Lidar Mapping Suite 2.0 Professional Edition, an all-new lidar rectification software designed for the production processing environment. Using the complex optical models associated with Optech's laser imaging products, Optech LMS dynamically determines a sensor error model that is applicable across the entire project area.

“The value to this approach is that we rigorously calculate coordinates from the raw lidar data that are free of all systematic errors,” said Michael Sitar, Optech’s Airborne Products Manager. “By doing so, we are able to provide our clients with the highest quality lidar data product possible with associated accuracy reports, eliminating entirely the need for further refinement. This enables users to jump directly into their value-added and application-specific workflows with confidence.”

The Lidar Workflow Solutions workshop was shared with DiMAC sprl. Optech recently acquired the operations and assets of this innovative digital aerial camera company, inventor of the patented DiMAC True Forward Motion Compensation technology. “Today, quality digital aerial imagery has become a key point of lidar data delivery. Therefore, the workshop was the perfect opportunity to present the technological advantage of the DiMAC camera to Optech users and demonstrate the high capabilities of our solution. It was also a proper introduction to our clients of Optech’s new direction in survey solutions for both active and passive imaging applications,” said Julien Losseau, Managing Director for DiMAC.

About Optech Incorporated
Optech is the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and imaging-based survey instruments. With operations and staff worldwide, Optech offers both standalone and fully integrated lidar and camera solutions in airborne terrestrial mapping, airborne laser bathymetry, mobile mapping, mine cavity monitoring, and industrial process control, as well as space-proven sensors.

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