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Other bits of information from the Altamus team that we hope you will find useful or informative: explainers, lessons from the field and the occasional behind-the-scenes look at our work.
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Measuring a stockpile can put people near shifting material and moving equipment. Here's how fixed LiDAR scanning cuts that exposure, and where it falls short.
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How we put EOS2 LiDAR sensors in three salt sheds for a state DOT, why two of the buildings needed a second sensor, and what Hyperion reports from each scan.
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Altamus and Canopy Vision are combining LiDAR and AI vision to measure railcar fill in real time at loadouts and unloading points that don't have a scale.
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Our LiDAR sensor was designed for outdoor sites from day one: rugged, low power and affordable, built in-house in Gainesville, Florida, and supported by the people who make it.
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Walls, loader faces and an expected number make bin inventory hard to measure by eye or by hand. How four methods compare.
Read the article· 8 min read
A month-end stockpile adjustment costs more than the write-down itself. Where book-to-physical gaps come from, what they really cost and how to stop them.
Read the article· 8 min read
What point cloud registration is, and four ways to line up scans: drone surveys, satellite tiles, scanner overlap and the walls of the building itself.
Read the article· 6 min read
LiDAR only measures what it can see. How bay walls, equipment and the pile itself cast blind spots, and how smart sensor placement gets rid of most of them.
Read the article· 12 min read
Ultrasonic, radar and LiDAR all time a bouncing pulse, but they see very different things. Where each struggles, and how to pick one for bins, silos and piles.
Read the articleTell us what you store and how it is stored. We will tell you honestly whether LiDAR is the right tool, or whether something else will serve you better.
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