An Operational Airborne LiDAR Survey System Using Kinematic DGPS

Morgan D. Reed, Dean F. Pottle

Abstract:	In April of 1995, John E. Chance & Associates, Inc. CHANCE, an international multi-disciplined survey services company introduced FLI-MAP, an operational airborne lidar survey system. FLI-MAP is a system based upon the precision and reliability of On-The-Fly Kinematic Differential GPS (OTF KDGPS). FLI-MAP was originally designed to perform topographic surveys in remote areas for such clients as the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. However, since FLI-MAPs introduction, its effectiveness and superior performance has been utilized on various topographic, engineering, and asset inventory survey projects. Samples of some of the FLI-MAP survey projects include riverbed, natural disaster damage assessment, electric transmission line corridor, pipeline corridor, and railroad corridor surveys. The FLI-MAP system is presented, including the airborne data collection and ground based data processing systems. The advantages of a FLI-MAP survey is compared to a conventional survey method. Operational issues associated with corridor surveys covering hundreds of miles are presented. A recent FLI-MAP survey is presented to demonstrate its operational effectiveness and superior capabilities.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 11th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1998) September 15 - 18, 1998 Nashville, TN
Pages:	969 - 974
Cite this article:	Reed, Morgan D., Pottle, Dean F., "An Operational Airborne LiDAR Survey System Using Kinematic DGPS," Proceedings of the 11th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1998), Nashville, TN, September 1998, pp. 969-974.
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