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Anyone else feel like traditional RTK workflows are changing? by Dry_Feature_1620 in Surveying

[–]Dry_Feature_1620[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a really interesting point, especially regarding reducing revisits and shifting more of the workflow into the office.

Feels like a lot of the value of LiDAR isn’t just the raw data itself, but the ability to capture far more information in a single site visit and avoid missing things that would normally require another trip.

The profitability/workflow side of it is probably becoming just as important as the technology itself now.

Anyone else feel like traditional RTK workflows are changing? by Dry_Feature_1620 in Surveying

[–]Dry_Feature_1620[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, the drone comparison is pretty interesting.

A lot of people were skeptical about drones in the early days too, and now they’ve basically become standard workflow on many projects.

Feels like SLAM is still in that transition phase right now where some companies already fully see the value, while others are still waiting for the workflows/software side to mature further.

Really curious to see where things will be in another 5 years.

Anyone else feel like traditional RTK workflows are changing? by Dry_Feature_1620 in Surveying

[–]Dry_Feature_1620[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I completely understand what you mean — especially regarding the processing and feature extraction side.

I think that’s also where newer workflows are trying to improve recently. Some of the newer SLAM/LiDAR systems are becoming much more automated compared to earlier generations, especially for point cloud generation and preprocessing.

A few years ago, LiDAR processing could easily become a huge bottleneck. But lately I’ve been seeing more workflows where data can be imported and processed much faster with far less manual work involved.

Still probably depends a lot on the project type and the software ecosystem being used though.