Monday, October 5, 2009

Atlanta - Spaghetti Interchange

In order to minimize traffic in the collection, our crew worked through the early morning hours to capture almost 20 different approaches to the I85 - I285 interchange in Northeast Atlanta.  Called the "Spaghetti Interchange" by locals, the data capture for the trajectory shown to the right took approximately 2.5 hours.  The Smoothed Best Estimate of Trajectory (SBET) provides a constant position and orientation of the vehicle to process with the laser range data to calculate X, Y and Z coordinates of all measured points (point cloud) - the minimum type of processing performed.


The image above shows intensity merged with colorization by height (blues are lower than reds).  The support structures, decking, retaining walls, barrier walls, and other roadway features were accurately captured with our vehicle traveling at 50 - 60 mph.

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