A little over a month ago, our Ridgeland office hosted a visit by Baker's CEO, Brad Mallory. During a presentation of projects our Transportation group was working on throughout Mississippi, it was quickly observed that several of the slides had 13 projects listed - a Baker's dozen.
From that meeting, an idea was born to develop "Baker's Dozen: 13 Laws of Mobile LiDAR." These Laws were developed after much thought and consideration. In coming posts, I will explain each of the Laws in detail providing further explanation.
Without further ado, I unveil the Baker's Dozen: 13 Laws of Mobile LiDAR (also currently being chiseled on a slab of granite):
- Too much is better than not enough.
- Sometimes more is just more, not better.
- Hard drives are cheap, time isn’t.
- Consistency counts; stop guessing.
- When someone wants “full planimetrics,” they really don’t.
- The stated laser range is X’, but the lasers are only capturing data to Y’; and Y is definitely less than X, yet nobody can tell you what Y is…
- The data you capture is only as good as the applied control.
- Today’s best practices will be tomorrow’s old habits.
- Field vs. office time ratios are pipe dreams.
- Mobile LiDAR systems are not created equal, and neither are the operations behind them.
- Off-the-shelf processing software will only do 50% of what you need it to do.
- When the system encounters issues, take a breath and reboot.
- Mobile LiDAR is not all fun and games, but it does feel like it some days.
Feel free to let me know what you think. Perhaps we can have a committee gathered to debate them or formalize some agreement.
Cheers!
Stephen
I think you should be presenting something like this at the ESRI User Conference this July; it would go over well.
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