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In response to the need to acquire and process airborne LiDAR and related imagery at a remote location, GeoDigital International designed and developed MAP – The Mobile Acquisition Platform. Built around a highly customized utility trailer, MAP has over 5,500 cubic feet of storage, maintenance, and operational space available to support a five person acquisition and data processing team. This enables near real time geospatial data delivery and situational awareness in the field.

MAP is the first and only (to our knowledge) mobile, airborne data acquisition and processing platform of its kind in the world. MAP can travel over 600 miles nonstop in rapid response mode to establish local acquisition and onsite data processing. MAP is designed to carry an MD500 helicopter and all of the systems required to remotely process LiDAR and imagery anywhere in North America.

Central to MAP’s capabilities is the MD500 helicopter, which can be configured with any of GeoDigital’s TCOR LiDAR and camera systems. MAP can acquire over 100 miles per day of detailed corridor mapping, or over 50 square miles of wide area coverage.

MAP was designed to address applications that include remote incident management, emergency response, disaster relief and support for wildfire mitigation.

User Benefits

The following is a partial list of the benefits that MAP provides:


 * Near real time geospatial situational awareness
 * Autonomously acquire and process data in the field anywhere in North America
 * Helicopter platform provides maximum flexibility and off-airport operation
 * Rapid deployment and re-location to meet shifting priorities and weather conditions
 * eMAP system tracks the crew and aircraft in real time
 * Ability to remotely process data within minutes of the helicopter touching down
 * Over ten terabytes of onboard data storage
 * Upload data to secure web portal providing real time access

Services and Deliverables

The following is a partial list of the services and deliverables that the MAP system can support:

Data Acquisition


 * LiDAR acquisition – corridor or block area
 * Multi-camera, high resolution image collection – downward and oblique views
 * GPS ground control data collection

Data Processing


 * Geo-referenced LiDAR point clouds
 * Rapid digital ortho-photo production
 * Ground survey network processing

Data Product Generation


 * 3D digital surface and elevation models
 * Above ground feature extraction and classification
 * Digital ortho-photos
 * GIS ready data tables
 * Vector planimetrics
 * Contour map generation
 * Colorized LiDAR point clouds
 * Data visualization and fly-throughs
 * Automated change detection