A new partnership ushers in a new initiative called LMAP or the Lidar Management and Analytical Processing.

The latest partnership is between RIEGL of Austria and Esri. RIEGL is a manufacturer of ultra-high performance Lidar scanners while Esri is the creator of the ArcGIS platform.

The RIEGL-Esri LMAP initiative provides a new, automated workflow to upload and store Lidar and metadata into GIS. Once organized and managed using standard GIS functionality, LMAP uses web applications to visualize the information on a map and perform a range of analysis.

The North American geospatial-only solutions provider Quantum Spatial Inc. (QSI) has already employed an LMAP implementation to improve project data management and provide a venue for clients to quickly and easily provide feedback on Lidar collection quality and completeness. Learn more about QSI’s LMAP project implementation.

The development of the RIEGL + Esri LMAP web application prototype demonstrates the viability of leveraging the ArcGIS platform to store, manage, analyze and visualize the many diverse datasets required for a bathymetric Lidar project, as demonstrated in the case study with QSI.

To learn more about the RIEGL + Esri LMAP initiative, check out this Story Map.