Morgan Reed Receives Fugro Award14/07/2008 |
| Morgan Reed, Lidar Development Manager with survey company John Chance Land Surveys (Lafayette, LA), has received Fugro's "Herman Zuidberg Award for Innovation." The namesake of this prestigious Fugro award is long-time Fugro innovator and inventor Herman Zuidberg. This Fugro Engineer, who has been working for the company for 40 years, put his work into a simple perspective: ‘Development is making something possible that was previously thought impossible. It is the modification and adaption of technical systems, of human beings. Development is generally not inventing something.' |
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Reed was chosen as this year's recipient for his design, development and integration of Fugro's airborne laser system, called FLI-MAP (Fast Laser Imaging-Mapping and Profiling). The FLI-MAP system is a cost-effective and innovative alternative to traditional surveying and mapping. The helicopter-based system is used for terrain mapping, primarily for the utility, transportation, and rail industries.
FLI-MAP has been used on several notable projects. In the US, the FLI-MAP system was utilised to conduct damage assessment surveys on over 400 miles of levees in New Orleans following the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. The system was also selected by the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Commission to map ground and vegetation features on sedimentation areas along the base of the Grand Canyon. In Europe, FLI-MAP is being utilised to map archeological features in Cephalonia, an island off the east coast of Greece.
John Chance Land Surveys is a member of the international Fugro group of companies which has approximately 12,000 staff permanently stationed in over 50 countries.
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