Naval Air Station Fallon — Training Facility
LiDAR documentation of training facilities at NAS Fallon under CUI-aware protocols, delivering false-color point clouds for facility assessment.
September 2022
The Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center located at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada (Top Gun) built a state-of-the-art facility to maintain its mandate as the center of excellence for naval aviation training and tactics development. Custom tables would be manufactured and installed in several of the training/lecture rooms. Our client needed an accurate as-built 3D CAD model of four rooms — not only the location and length of the walls, but also the profile of each riser, the size and location of each electrical box embedded in the floor, and the size and location of each conduit penetrating the floor.
To document these rooms with a steel/laser tape or total station would take an average of eight hours per room, two people, and provide only a few hundred data points. Rogue Visual Design sent one LiDAR specialist who scanned all four rooms, generating several hundred million data points, in less than eight hours. Our specialist processed the scan data that evening so it was ready for 3D CAD modeling the following day.