Mobile Mapping Services

Sanborn is a pioneer in the deployment of mobile mapping technology. As early as 2001, Sanborn was creating digital maps that captured visually and geospatially accurate roads, infrastructure, and other assets using the VISAT (Video Inertial SATellite) Video Capture and GPS/IMU technology. Today, Sanborn continues to push the leading edge of technology with the acquistion and deployment of the Optech Lynx V200 Mobile Mapping System. This advanced mobile mapping system combines LiDAR data with high resolution video collection to meet the accuracy required for today’s engineering grade applications and solutions.

The LYNX Mobile Mapper incorporates a revolutionary new LiDAR sensor head that leverages Optech’s 33 years of technology development experience and the latest in LiDAR innovation—iFLEX—to collect survey-grade LiDAR data at over 200,000 measurements per second with a 360º FOV, while maintaining a Class 1 Eye Safety Rating.

The Sanborn Mobile Mapping survey solution is designed for collecting engineering/survey grade LiDAR data over large areas that are impractical with static LiDAR sensors, but which require an accuracy and resolution that exceed the deliverables available through current airborne technologies. With a system delivering better than 5cm accuracy and a resolution of up to 1cm, Sanborn Mobile Mapping products and services offer unprecedented 3D detail from almost any vehicle and while moving at speeds of up to 60 mph.

The addition of the Lynx Mobile Mapping System allows Sanborn to offer a complete Ground2SkyTM picture of the world and its environment, and is a natural extension to the workflows and processes in place for airborne LiDAR collection and processing.

Mobile Mapping Technology Benefits
Mobile Mapping technology provides for a product that excels in:

• Safety--collection at posted highway speeds without risking personnel in traffic to collect road/rail/survey data
• Collection efficiency--faster by up to 50x than conventional means
• Accuracy--positional processing integrating survey control, GPS, and IMU data
• Delivery--data available in standard formats, available in CAD or other software packages
• Cost & Schedule Effective--virtual survey means no return to the field to pick up “missed” features,
• 3D visualization excellence--accurate and completely detailed capture of structures, roads, infrastructure, etc.