Voxelmetriqs

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06/013/2019

Hovermap

Use Case Study

Although emesent's new Hovermap is a versatile SLAM Lidar system primarily developed for automatic navigation it is being used for asset inspection and 3D modelling underground, in confined spaces and other GPS denied environments.

The Hovermap is currently competeing in DARPA's SubT Challenge. "The DARPA Subterranean or “SubT” Challenge seeks novel approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments during time-sensitive combat operations or disaster response scenarios."

In the heavily forested wilderness of Northern Ontario, Canada we explored the potential the Hovermap has for rapid reality capture above-ground in several commercial use cases presented in an upcoming infographic blog series.

"Hovermap offers revolutionary efficiency, safety and operational insights to challenging above ground, underground and GPS-denied environments.

It provides collision avoidance, GPS-denied flight, advanced autonomy and SLAM-based LiDAR mapping.

This allows a Hovermap-enabled drone to be deployed in challenging GPS-denied environments, to collect 3D and other data which was previously impossible to collect. This new data in turn leads to new insights.

Underground mines, tunnels, bridges, telecom and transmission towers and many more can now be mapped and inspected safely, without putting humans at risk."

- Emesent