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 IN THIS
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•
Greetings!
• Feature Article
• Aircraft
Announcement
• Forestry
Seminar
• Where We Are
Working
• Staff
Spotlight
• Partners &
Events
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STAFF
SPOTLIGHT
DOMINIC
CHIN
Technology
Manager
Dominic holds a Bachelor of
Science (Geophysics) from University of Alberta,
Canada and more recently a MBA from University of
Southern Illinois. Dominic has been on Credent
staff since 1992 in technology roles including
Programmer, Analyst, Application Engineer, Project
Manager, and GIS Consultant.
During this period he has
been involved in a wide variety of projects and
large systems implementations including Land
Information Systems (LIS), Cadastral Survey and
Mapping, Automated Mapping / Facilities management
(AM/FM), Cartography and National Mapping,
Location Based Services, C4I systems; and served
across south east Asia and most of Asia
Pacific.
Because of his extensive
experience he is now our Chief Scientist although
strictly speaking his title is “Technology
Manager”.
Dominic is currently
heavily involved in the development of our LiDAR
services - managing the data processing and
developing a customized work flow. This includes
developing additional functionality and
applications to enable Credent to generate
specific 3D information products from LiDAR and
aerial imagery to satisfy clients’ unique
requirements.
NEW
PERSONNEL
Rama Murthy
Panangipalli, Senior
Engineer Dip. Engineering, India, 1997
Ganda
Situmorang, Sales Consultant
(Forestry)
Bachelor Degree (Forest Products Technology),
Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), 2002
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PARTNERS &
EVENTS
Optech – Credent attended
Optech’s Innovative LiDAR Solutions Conference
(ILSC) in Toronto (31st May – 3rd June, 2011). We
were impressed with the technology directions in
both hardware and software and plan to take
advantage of these in coming months. In
particular, advances in their navigation and LiDAR
operation software will result in better flight
planning and more efficient collections – good
news for both Credent and our clients as this will
help to reduce the aerial collection cost. Also an
upgrade in the post processing software, currently
rolling out, will mean better accuracy and
consistency in the data sets. Credent has already
invested in the initial upgrade and is evaluating
the optional extensions
17 - 19 October
2011
Asia
Geospatial Forum
Hotel
Mulia Senyan
Jakarta,
Indonesia
Geospatial
Convergence - Paradigm for Future
October
2011
ESRI Indonesia and PT
Credent jointly hosting LiDAR Point Clouds in
GIS For Foresters Workshop
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Greetings from the
Managing Director
 Welcome to the latest
edition of Credent’s LiDAR newsletter. At this
time we would like to bring our readers up to date
with the events of the first half of 2011 during
which we continued to focus on LiDAR in tropical
forestry; a field where we are developing unique
expertise and desire to share our knowledge with
industry.
To this effect, we recently
hosted a seminar in Jakarta, attended by around 75
people. See Ron Behrendt’s report on the seminar
later in this edition.
Our feature article
looks at the practical application of LiDAR and 3D mapping to harvest
management with particular reference to Reduced
Impact Logging (RIL). The authors compare the cost
of conducting forest inventory using traditional
field techniques versus modern mapping.
We
are introducing a Simple LiDAR Data Viewer (SLDV), which
is designed for viewing and interpretation
ofLiDAR
point clouds
in forestry and will be available for download
from Credent's website.
Our research and development division is engaged
in a project to help estimate forest biomass (and
therefore carbon value) directly from a
LiDAR point cloud. We hope to
conduct some field tests in Q3 with the aim of a
product offering by early 2012. See our product
spotlight section for more
details.
Following the seminar last month,
we are now planning a technical workshop to
offer hands on experience with LiDAR point clouds in ArcGIS for
foresters. The workshop, tentatively scheduled for
October, will be jointly hosted with ESRI
Indonesia. ArcGIS v10.1 has some
extraordinary capabilities for ingesting and
managing LiDAR point clouds. Credent, as
a LiDAR services provider,
together with ESRI which is making industry
leading strides in managing point clouds in a
geo-database, find excellent synergy teaming
together to offer an end-to-end solution to
collect, manage, analyze, interpret LiDAR and publish value-added
geo-information products. Partners & Events
section has the details.
This year Credent
has an ambitious capital investment plan and we
are excited to make an announcement regarding an
aircraft later in this edition. We are not
neglecting the need for investment in human
capital either and the spotlight on staff section
introduces some of our personnel.
Checkout
the see where we are working map. We are usually
willing to take on last minute jobs when they are
in the vicinity of our current projects. You can
use the Get a Quote facility on http://click.icptrack.com/icp/rclick.php?d=1LhCmXuzVYs2B3OerBAp8PYeDV5MM5Q9&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.credent-asia.com%2Fgetquote.asp
to indicate your interest.
Finally we would
like to introduce our new Facebook
page.
I
hope you find this edition interesting. As always
we welcome your feedback. To keep in touch and see
our latest news in real time, just
"LIKE" our Facebook
page.
Best
regards,
Bill Love
Please send any comments
you might have on this newsletter or suggestions
for future articles to the Publisher,
ron@credent-asia.com
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FEATURE ARTICLE
LiDAR Technology
Offers Practical Solutions To Your Mapping Needs
by Ron Behrendt &
Art Klassen
Tropical Forest Foundation
(TFF)
&
Credent
Technology
June 2011
Frustrated that you can’t
seem to get reliable, operational scale maps
produced despite all that mapping technology your
staff is using? A solution is finally
available! In 2010, an innovative remote
sensing technology, known as LiDAR (Light
Detecting And Ranging) was field tested in
Indonesia. The results show great promise for
providing a wide range of standard as well as
dramatically enhanced mapping and analysis options
available to the management team of a typical
forest concession.
Utilizing LiDAR,
measurements are made in 3 dimensions (X,Y, and
Z). When operated on an airborne platform
such as a fixed wing airplane or helicopter with
the LiDAR system viewing down, the system can map
terrain, land cover (vegetation), and structures
(buildings, power lines, etc.) with accuracies
measured in centimeters.
To read the rest of this
article, please go to: (http://click.icptrack.com/icp/rclick.php?d=1LhCmXuzVYs2B3OerBAp8PYeDV5MM5Q9&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.credent-asia.com%2FNews%2520and%2520Events%2FLiDAR%2520article.pdf).
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AIRCRAFT PURCHASE FOR
CREDENT
Singapore, 1st July
2011: Credent Technology Asia announces
its purchase of a new survey aircraft to support
its airborne data acquisition services in south
east Asia.
Credent selected the
Cessna 208B, also known as a Grand Caravan, due to
its extraordinary reputation for safety,
efficiency and ruggedness. Far from rugged however
is the VIP cabin configured with executive leather
seats, refreshment centre, and polished wood trim.
“We need a multi-role aircraft that performs
efficiently as a survey platform while also
appealing to the needs of executive charter
clients” said Bill Love, Managing Director and
Chairman of Credent. “The turbine engine is a key
factor for both performance and safety and we had
to break the dependency on AVGAS [aviation
gasoline used in standard piston engines] which
has to be shipped and trucked to the project site
- wasting valuable time” explained Love. “AVTUR
[also known as Jet A-1 fuel] which is used by
nearly all jet and turboprop aircraft is available
from Pertamina at every airfield regardless of
size” he added.
Credent’s growing LiDAR
business in Indonesia will occupy most of the
aircraft hours and any balance is expected to be
sold as charter flights to executive clients in
the mining, oil & gas and plantation
industries.
 As a survey aircraft the
Caravan’s high-wing configuration offers a stable
platform with an economical survey speed of 130kts
and ferry cruise at 170kts. The new caravan will
be equipped with a so called “glass” cockpit
meaning, all digital displays including high
definition colour weather radar, traffic advisory
& warning system, oxygen (for high altitude
ferry flights) and air conditioning. A large
sensor port with electronic sliding doors will be
installed in the hull to accommodate a range of
different sensors that can be installed and
operated simultaneously. “This will be a superb
aircraft” said Love. “It seems like overkill for a
survey aircraft but we are totally focused on
safety, efficiency and long term protection of our
investment”, he said.
Credent has already
hired a Chief Pilot and Mechanic. “A brilliant
aircraft is of little use without a good pilot and
we have been fortunate to recruit an exceptional
captain with survey experience” said
Love.
The brand new aircraft was ordered
directly from Cessna and will be delivered later
this year to be based at Halim airfield, near
Jakarta.
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FORESTRY
SEMINAR
Diverse Group
Attends Credent’s First
3D Laser Mapping
for Indonesian Forestry
Seminar
A group of more than 70
people from a wide variety of organizations
attended Credent’s full day seminar held this past
June in Jakarta, Indonesia. The audience was
informed about the latest capabilities in airborne
LiDAR surveys for forestry applications and
treated to presentations by seven speakers from
Indonesia, Singapore, Canada, and the United
States.
Speaker’s topics included
An Introduction of ArcGIS for LiDAR, LiDAR and
Image Processing in ArcGIS for Carbon
Accounting, REDD Readiness Progress: MRV and
Consultation, LiDAR and Image Processing in ArcGIS
for Carbon Accounting, The Use of LiDAR for
Vegetation Cover Mapping, Biomass, Carbon
Measurement, and Integrated Land Use Planning,
LiDAR Technology Offers Practical Solutions
to Mapping Needs, and How to
Specify, Acquire, Process & Costs of a
LiDAR Survey. Organizations making
presentations in addition to Credent Technology
included Esri International, The
Nature Conservancy, the GMP Group, the Ata-Maria
Group, and the Tropical Forest
Foundation.
Based on a feedback survey
provided by attendees after the seminar, a
significant percentage (85%) said they would
attend a Credent sponsored LiDAR informational
seminar in the future with 93% specifically
interested in attending a workshop on how Esri's
ArcGIS software can take advantage of and utilize
LiDAR data.
For more information on
future seminars and workshops hosted by Credent
Technology, please contact: Mr. Ganda Situmorang
(ganda@credent-asia.com)
or Mr. Lee Hon Chuan (honchuan@credent-asia.com). |
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