OffRoad LiDAR Services

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote sensing method that uses pulsed laser technology to measure distances to the earth to produce precise, three-dimensional models of the earth's surface. LiDAR is fast becoming a very important tool used in resource management across a wide range of disciplines. With continual advances in technology, the accuracy and precision of LiDAR continues to evolve while costs continue to fall.

With the growing popularity of LiDAR data collection initiatives, most organizations are struggling with the ever-expanding demands associated with the storage and dissemination of these large datasets. Given the typical sizes of LiDAR data, LiDAR collection and storage has been met with spiraling costs associated with the enterprise solutions available for managing, storing, and disseminating these data. Over time, enterprise storage and dissemination costs can often become much greater than the cost of collecting the LiDAR. In many cases, LiDAR data collection efforts end up as a massive collection of hard drives stored in back rooms with limited or no availability to important stakeholders.

OffRoad Software has developed a custom management solution that was designed specifically to address the challenges associated with managing, storing, and disseminating large spatial data sets such as LiDAR. Beyond a simple mapping interface to view the extent and select the appropriate data to download, OffRoad Software's LiDAR Dissemination Service was designed to provide real-time packaging technology to eliminate the typically awkward zip-and-ship solutions that most large data delivery systems provide. LiDAR datasets typically represent terabytes not gigabytes of data. The dissemination tools that we have developed allows users to package and download target data sets, even those with thousands of tiles and terabytes of data, in real-time; in just seconds with only a few clicks of a mouse.

OffRoad Software brings years of experience with GIS and data management applications combined with significant expertise with network and data delivery solutions to provide a turn-key managed service for your LiDAR data management and dissemination needs. Our staff has actively managed and delivered map services for dissemination of millions of dollars of LiDAR data covering over 70,000 square miles for the past 10 years. The services that we developed were designed to address the needs of the GIS professionals. Simplicity is our primary objective as locating and downloading your data should be the easiest part of any project that needs LiDAR data. Most sites that currently provide access to LiDAR data often make it difficult to locate and download selected tiles, let alone thousands of tiles. OffRoad Software's LiDAR Dissemination solution reduces the process of selecting and downloading tiles, whether you are targeting just a few tiles or thousands of tiles to a simple point-and-click process.

The LiDAR Dissemination service provided by OffRoad Software also delivers a price point that is well below any competitive Cloud service that provide simple storage solutions. Given the tremendous investments associated with collecting LiDAR, it only makes sense to properly catalog and manage these data in a system that provides ease of access for all stakeholders. OffRoad Software can help you eliminate the obstacles associated with the storage and management of the data so that you can dramatically improve the return on investment for you LiDAR collection efforts.

Please take some time to review the LiDAR dissemination services that we provide as well as the management infrastructure that we can provide to your organization. Please review the following services that we have currently developed: