• Building facades to produce elevations, floorplans etc...
• Quarry's for accurate volume calculations.
• Cliff faces for study into cliff face recession.
• Complex plant scans for modelling of plant detail.
• Scanning of Electicity Pylons and overhead cables. Infringement surveys.
• Mining, for calculation of overbreak and underbreak. Mapping of workings using robotic vehicle allows safe data collection.
• Topographic surveys.

Laser scanning has a wide variety of applications and it is certainly the case that there are applications that are not listed here. Most laser scans involve the data capture of complex surfaces and often inaccessible environments.

There are many possible outputs that can be produced from the point cloud. From basic measurements, ortho-images, derived 2D/3D drawings, meshes/surfaces or solid modelling. Merrett Survey's have over 10 years of experience in this field and it is important to approach a laser scanning job in an informed way and to avoid some of the pitfalls.