Mississippi River Levee

Recently, we surveyed a few miles of the Mississippi River Levee south of Baton Rouge, LA using the Mobile LiDAR vehicle.  At first, there were two things we wanted to learn from the collection.  Our primary concern was the ability to capture the toe of slope of the levee with the system - the reasoning behind raising the sensor platform higher than the luggage rack.  As you can see from the screen captures below, we didn't have any trouble with that test.

The second phase of testing dealt with camera settings. Since the sun angle changes rapidly with the vehicle in constant motion, our crew tested different collection techniques and settings in an attempt to have consistant brightness.  Our goal is to limit the patchwork affect that is slightly visible in the roadway of the image above.  With new software we've employed, we're able to then perform basic color matching to smooth out those regions.

Now that we have this information, we have elected to perform an assessment of "soft targets".  We are performing field surveying in support this assessment - the results of which will be shared upon completion.