Headquartered in Australia, with a global reach through partners and regional offices in the US, and the UK, Emesent has built a reputation for delivering high quality data outputs using its versatile, simple to operate, and rapid tactical capture solutions in the most challenging, contested, and GPS-denied environments.
Emesent works closely with users to provide decision support and improve workflows across operational planning and rehearsals, military survey, battle damage assessment, search and rescue, disaster relief, CBRNe, EOD, and sensitive site exploitation, helping them better understand their operating environments and enabling faster, and more informed decisions.
Geospatial technology, such as LiDAR scanners, has revolutionised decision-making by providing precise and accurate data which can be used to reconstruct the operational environment. LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing technology that uses laser beams to measure distances and create detailed 3D models of the environment. These models are called point clouds which are a collection of points in a 3D coordinate system representing the surface of an object, or the environment captured by a LiDAR scanner. Each point in the cloud can be measured and represents a specific location in space and is defined by its X, Y, and Z coordinates, along with additional attributes such as intensity or colour. These point clouds can then be exported to generate additional artefacts such as contour or topographic maps, digital terrain models, digital surface models, 2D floorplans, 3D animated flythroughs, or digital twins. Alternatively, multiple scans over time of the same area can be merged to highlight changes in the environment – this is called change detection.
Emesent also leverages the LiDAR sensor and couples this with the onboard computer to provide a means of sensing the environment in real time. When coupled with simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) and the onboard AIML, it provides an agnostic autonomous navigation capability for unmanned systems and allows them to operate in GPS-denied environments and independent of Communications link.
Tactical Applications of Lidar:
Military Engineering Surveys
Battle Damage Assessment
Underground Operations
EOD
CBRNe
Sensitive Battlefield Data
HADR
Operational Planning and Rehearsals