Episodes

It’s that time of year again! Join us for RIEGL’s latest RiCAST where we discuss one of the industry’s largest conferences of the year, INTERGEO 2020, which is going virtual! This episode of RIEGL’s RiCAST “RIEGL is Here! INTERGEO Digital 2020” features for the first time RIEGL USA’s Susan Licari, Sales and Marketing Director and Miranda Welky, Marketing Events Coordinator as they discuss how to access our virtual booth, where to go if you want to have a private chat with our Ultimate LiDAR expe...

Welcome to the latest episode of the RIEGL RiCAST, which is the next installation of Joshua France’s “VMX: 10 Years of Success” series with Tim Platz, Vice President and Survey Department Director at Fishbeck. Tim Platz, PS is the Survey Department Director for Fishbeck, a professional consulting firm with offices in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Fishbeck offers Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Architecture and Construction Management services with an integrated project approach. Over the past...

English Description: This German language RiCAST will discuss what RIEGL and the landmark of Vienna, the St. Stephen's Cathedral, have in common. Franz Zehetner, from the archives of the Dombauhütte St. Stephan, is responsible for the extensive documents and plans of the gothic cathedral - some of them are already centuries old! Managing, updating, and supplementing the records on an ongoing basis and making them available for a wide variety of purposes, such as the ongoing restoration work, is ...

In today’s installment of the RIEGL RiCAST, we are joined by Michael Sitar, RIEGL USA’s Executive Management Consultant, along with Nick Ferguson, VP of Strategy & BD from Enview Inc. Enview Inc. offers data analytics and remote sensing solutions. The company automates geospatial big data for the energy industry to enhance the safety, reliability, and compliance of pipeline and power line operations. Nick Ferguson has led sales, marketing and product teams consulting with geospatial, energy and ...

English Description: Claudio Avello, South America Partner Development Manager for RIEGL USA, talks with Miguel Gerardo Vazquez, the Director of the Brazilian offices for Metro Cubico Engenharia. Miguel has more than 12 years of experience in the LiDAR industry and is a graduate from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, where he obtained his Cartographic Engineering degree. The two chat about the LiDAR market in Brazil, as well as discuss an important project of re-foresting in Sao Paulo and ...

Welcome to our latest episode of “VMX: 10 Years of Success” featuring RIEGL USA’s Mobile Segment Manager, Joshua France. In this RiCAST, we are joined with Clay Wygant from Maser Consulting. Maser Consulting is a nationwide, privately owned multi-discipline engineering firm with a new, unique balance of public and private sector experience. Clay has led the mobile division at Maser Consulting since 2013 and has grown their mobile mapping team to include two RIEGL systems and has many experienced...

Today, we have an interesting RiCAST ready for all our current or potential future airborne users. RIEGL’s Michael Sitar, Executive Management Consultant, does an overview of one of our newest and innovative airborne scanning systems; the VQ-1560 II. Michael goes into detail on this state-of-the-art instrument and highlights the benefits and its best practices in the LiDAR industry. The configuration of the VQ-1560 II is that of a full system design consisting of two laser systems, a dual laser ...

In today’s RiCAST, for our Spanish speakers, we will be going back to the basics! Our RIEGL LiDAR expert, Claudio Avello, South America Partner Development Manager, will be discussing all things LiDAR! He will start from the basic foundation to the more complex expert level in this episode. Everyone who listens can fully grasp why this technology is extraordinarily important in the Engineering and Survey Industry. Claudio goes in-depth with some simple examples that illustrate how LiDAR works, t...

For today’s RiCAST, we have RIEGL USA’s Terrestrial Business Segment Manager, Tan Nguyen, joining us with his latest episode of “Tan Talk”. Tan will be introducing and discussing in detail the state-of-the-art RIEGL VZ series. The VZ series is comprised of RIEGL’s innovative terrestrial laser scanning instruments. Terrestrial laser scanners are contact-free measuring devices which can collect dense point. A point cloud may be converted into a grid DEM to facilitate topographic mapping and spatia...

Welcome to the next episode of the series “Celebrating the Success of the VMX”! This week we have Joshua France, RIEGL Mobile Segment Manager, hosting our first mobile user in Canada and mobile scanner pioneer, Craig Sheriff. With over 20 years of experience in geomatics, spatial analysis, and remote sensing, Craig is currently the Operations Manager of Tulloch Mapping Solutions - part of Tulloch Engineering. For the past 15 years, he has been responsible for all aspects of mobile LiDAR scanning...

English Description: In this RiCAST, we had the pleasure to talk with Boaz Teixeira from CPE Technology. CPE Technologia is RIEGL’s distributor for Brazil and our RIEGL LiDAR expert Claudio Avello starts off the conversation with Boaz’s extensive 18-year experience in LiDAR. They discuss the Brazilian market and how LiDAR was first introduced and adapted by several companies and markets in the country. The two chat about the early days, the challenges that Boaz and his company overcame and some ...

In the latest RiCAST episode of “Road Trip with Josh and the VMX Series”, we drive to meet Ryan Swingley, Geospatial Manager of the Midwest with ESP Associates. Ryan Swingley graduated from Vincennes University with an A.S. in Surveying Technology and gained licensure to practice as a Registered Land Surveyor in the State of Indiana in 2005. He is also licensed as a Land Surveyor in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Ryan has worked as a consultant, performing large-scale boundary, topographic...

In today’s RiCAST, Michael Sitar, Executive Management Consultant, checks in with Ron Chapple, CEO of Geo 1. Years ago, Chapple’s Southern California-based firm received a client request for a high-resolution video of an electrical transmission circuit. When planning the shoot, his team made the decision to add aerial LiDAR scans collected with RIEGL equipment to their traditional video tools, giving them a product that included the element of 3D. Since then GEO1 has never looked back and is usi...

Dr. Robert Radovanic Welcome to another episode of “Celebrating the 10 Years of Success with the VMX” with Josh France. Listen in on this insightful conversation about mobile LiDAR with Dr. Robert Radovanovic, Calgary Engineering Branch Manager at McElhanney Ltd. Their discussion features Dr. Radovanic’s experiences scanning hundreds of miles of roadway with the VMX-450, a predecessor to the current model, the VMX-2HA. He will talk about what they have learned over the past nine years of scanni...

Today's Interviewee is Mr. David Santos Carvallo, Geomensor Engineer of the University of Santiago de Chile. With more than 15 years of experience with laser scanner technologies, he has participated in various projects of integration and commissioning of LiDAR in many areas of the industry and has eight years working with RIEGL Instruments. He currently serves as Development Manager; he oversees the laser scanner area at GEOCOM S.A. in Santiago de Chile.

In today’s episode Jillian Kreider, a RIEGL Terrestrial Sales Specialist, begins a series on using LiDAR for forensics. Jill explains how RIEGL’ terrestrial scanners are being used for creating court admissible, 3D records of crime and crash scenes by our clients around the world. Over the next six minutes, Jillian will talk with us about RIEGL’s LiDAR scanning tools that can improve safety of our first responders, the ability to perform the work with only one officer so that others can work oth...

In today’s episode on Josh’s Road trips with the VMX, Josh will share a discussion with Dr. Harald Teufelsbauer, the Mobile Segment Business Development Manager at RIEGL headquarters in Austria. Josh and Dr. Teufelsbauer went to the great state of Michigan in February 2020. Their one week-long road trip took them across the state to see first-hand the demand for mobile mapping systems, visit customers and create new professional relationships along the way. So fuel up your ride, grab a snack, an...

Today we introduce a new RiCAST Podcast series called “Celebrating the 10 Years of Success with the VMX”, featuring conversations with RIEGL mobile scanning customers. Today’s guest is Joe Feyder, LiDAR Operations Manager of REY Engineers who started using the VMX in 2010. Joe has been using the VMX for department of transportation and other roadway work. At REY, Joe oversees the mobilization, application and delivery of the firm’s mobile and terrestrial LiDAR technology. Joe has 40+ years of co...

This series features interviews with industry experts from around the world, innovative LiDAR applications, best practices, workflow advice and even exciting news about hardware and software. The podcasts are produced by RIEGL at their North American headquarters located in Central Florida, and available worldwide through our RIEGL Newsroom on www.RIEGL.com. © RIEGL USA 2020

Hear RIEGL's Ultimate LiDAR expert, Tan Nguyen speak about external GNSS integration for terrestrial scanners. This RiCAST podcast will highlight: Intro to VZ-i series internal GPS How to configure external GNSS How to configure GNSS file for scanner Benefits of using GPS with terrestrial laser scanner Applications for GPS RTK + TLS About RIEGL RIEGL is an international leading provider of cutting-edge technology in airborne, mobile, terrestrial, industrial and unmanned laser scanning solutions....

My-Linh talks with us about the evolution of RIEGL’s lightweight, super-fast and incredibly precise unmanned LiDAR scanning instruments. She will also talk a bit about some of the platforms for mounting the scanner on unmanned aerial vehicles and collecting 3D point-clouds for a variety of applications. This RIEGL RiCAST podcast series features interviews with industry experts from around the world, innovative LiDAR applications, best practices, workflow advice and even exciting news about hardw...