{"id":1312,"date":"2018-11-06T18:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T01:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2018-11-06T18:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T01:37:51","slug":"not-everything-requires-high-accuracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"Not Everything Requires High Accuracies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How feature inspection, assessment, and reporting are now available to non-experts (and experts alike).<\/h2>\n<p><strong>In the early 2000s<\/strong>, Leon Toorenburg was in Africa mapping the locations of communications and utility towers. He was carrying a laser range finder, a camera, a GPS receiver, a laptop, and a field stick. It occurred to him that there had to be an easier way.<\/p>\n<p>So he created IKE, a product that combines the first three of those devices, enabling the user to \u201crectify a photo using a hand-held device and measure features within that photo,\u201d says James Pardue, senior vice president of sales at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ikegps.com\/spike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ikeGPS<\/a>. IKE was adopted by utilities and by defense and intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>However, an IKE unit sells for about $11,000 and requires maintenance and training. Toorenburg\u2019s next step was to create a much cheaper and simpler version that would \u201ccreate an opportunity for millions of new people to collect information that up until then was just in the realm of expert users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That effort led to the Spike, which is priced at $500. It has a laser range finder with a 650 ft. range, attaches to a smart phone with a clamp, and connects to it via Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xyht.com\/lidarimaging\/not-everything-high-accuracies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read more&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How feature inspection, assessment, and reporting are now available to non-experts (and experts alike). In the early 2000s, Leon Toorenburg was in Africa mapping the locations of communications and utility towers. He was carrying a laser range finder, a camera, a GPS receiver, a laptop, and a field stick. It occurred to him that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,63,25,35,17,11,55,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-computer-aided-design","category-feature_articles","category-gis","category-mapping_and_cartography","category-recent_articles","category-photogrammetry","category-xyht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}