East Renfrewshire’s mapping technology is made to measure

11 October 2006

A detailed 3D map has been created to help East Renfrewshire Council’s Road Transportation Service construct a new link road to the west of Glasgow.
Created by aerial mapping company BlueSky, the aircraft-mounted laser technology determines accurate heights of land and buildings by using the LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) distance-measurement system.
The digital data, which provides height above sea level readings every metre, with an accuracy of 15 centimetres, is being used to calculate ‘cut and fill’ volumes in preparation for the earthworks stage of the project.
BlueSky used a survey aircraft equipped with a system of lasers, which flew over the proposed route of the road at a height of less than 700M. The lasers were beamed to the surface to calculate the distance between the aircraft and the ground.
Fred Abercrombie, principal engineer, said the data would ‘enable us to accurately cut and fill volumes to assist with the design and earthmoving stages of the project’.

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