We were looking at MX2 and we were all set to buy. Trimble management made it difficult so we went elsewhere. Mobile lidar is not as easy as scan and done but it is awesome.
Mx2 will do 72k points per second at 1cm plus position. Ours does 600k points per second at 1cm plus position plus 960k points per second at 1mm plus position. When you need more it is good. When you need less you can resample.
LidarUSA. Com and we use Carlson to process.
It looks like about 200K investment to get in this business.
We were over 3 with the options and they could not guarantee survey grade results. They would not come to us for demo and wanted to send me to CO for a full demo. They had a GIS guy running the show and I saw nothing from a surveyor.
Jeff pls from LidarUSA answered all of my questions within 30 minutes. Trimble did not have those answers.
I am glad trimble management interrupted the sales process.
As far as timing. Once you get the unit on the roof, set GPS bases out, paint targets on control, initialize the unit then scan the road. Then download, process trajectory, produce clouds, adjust clouds, extract topo and planimetrics, export to cad.
Safety and speed are bonuses. Cannot work in rain or wet or snow or white conditions. Email me if you want more info. Thadd at ese-llc.com
The ScanLook (with a FARO and a Velodyne) appears to be a pretty nice solution, and relatively inexpensive. Plus you can use the FARO by itself for stationary scanning.
Not that I'll be buying anything like this anytime soon. It looks like it's geared toward a pretty specialized market, and one that doesn't particularly interest me.