The University of Bradford is expanding the city’s digital twin with the aid of a vehicle-mounted mobile mapping system that can capture two million data points every second to a resolution of 1mm.
The University of Bradford is using the Leica TRK700 Evo vehicle-mounted mapping system – a first in the UK – to expand Virtual Bradford, the city’s digital twin. Initially the twin covered 1.5 square miles of the historic city centre and has been expanded to cover the Saltaire World Heritage site.
Shane Gwilt, mobile mapping and utility detection manager for Leica Geosystems in the UK, said: “The TRK700 Evo system [has] a combination of sensors including two Z+F profilers, picking up a million points of data per second each, along with the camera attachments giving us high-resolution colourised point cloud data, with simultaneous localisation and mapping technology and a range of other sensors to provide accurate real-time positioning data while on the move.”
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