Register your scanner(s)!
Help us introduce your scanner and what it can do for industry! Registrants are encouraged to attend every location where a CanSLAM track exists, but you can choose which courses you participate in. It's not required, but highly encouraged to attend all, everywhere.
While similar, each geographic location has a scanning scene unique to the others. See the Event Info page for a list of courses available in each city, maps and pre-planning information, and the evaluation criteria for each.
Basic steps for participation are as follows:
1) Register to participate
2) Confirm interview and scanning date(s) (will be contacted)
3) Submit device literature (Spec sheets, cost breakdown, sales
reps & locations, preferred company logo and product image)
4) Perform scan & post-process data
5) Deliver final products ASAP (turnaround time is a factor)
Once registered (step (1)) you will be contacted by a CanSLAM representative to have information confirmed, provide a list of required data, and to answer whatever questions you might have.
See below the registration form for the breakdown of information required.
R-E-A-L.it with the Leica BLK2GO, SLAM Scan-Off 2023
Why take part in the CanSLAM?
The CanSALM Circuit is the ideal way to test your system in a controlled environment, gauge what's of value to your market, and announce your product to an organization focused on making sure your potential clients know you exist. Rapid and accurate 3D data capture is an extremely valuable service in a market only starting to find its utility. We want to help your market understand your product better so that they can see the value in what you're offering in application and context. The CanSLAM's focus is on your potential client's success; the more they succeed the higher the overall demand for your market.
Are you a startup? These circuits can be used as a testing ground for your system. Come announce your presence and your performance to those waiting for you to arrive.
Are you a sales rep? This is a great way to bring your customer the details they need, but it's also a great event to gage your standing in the market and where your market's interests lay. Industry is coming here to see what's available and how it stacks up to competition; performance, economy, efficiency, design, function & effectiveness are all factors. Regardless of what you cater to or what your scanner does, your market is here and looking for you.
Have a new or improved feature? Show the market what your upgrades bring and the value they has. This is your chance to both show that it works and how it stacks up to others who say they can do the same or better.
Looking to expand your applications? We are too! We're making it our business to make sure the data extraction/drafting and A.I. industries knows you exist. We promote these samples to universities, A.I. communities, and turnkey A.I. solution companies looking to apply themselves to your device.
The CanSLAM is about helping you and your clients find where you device lay in the aspects most important to them.
What are you being asked for?
For those looking to provide scanner data, we will ask you to go through the following processes. While we ask you attend at least one of our circuit courses, exterior or interior at any location of your choice; we encourage you to attend them all to prove your product through repeat performance.
Submission1:
Tech Sheet and Literature
Participants will be required to submit the following information for each instrument they showcase:
Specification sheet(s) for the instrument(s) being used.
Contact information for regional sales representatives/distributors in Canada.
A non-committed quote (in USD) for each instrument at current recommended market price, including:
o Customer service tiers, costs and periods.
o Accessories or modifications available for the platform
o Additional post-processing or extraction functions
o Any other information to help understand the previously mentioned items.
Activity1:
Interview
Participants will be offered an opportunity to sit down the CanSLAM representatives in front of a camera to discuss the platforms being applied. Questions for the interview may include the following
- Who are you, who are you with, and what instrument is being showcased?- How does your device collect spatial information?
- What kinds of detection and alignment is the SLAM using in GNSS-denied areas?
- What are features or functions of your device that you consider special/unique?
- Where can members of the public find more information on purchasing your device?
Participants may choose to have their interviews performed online or in person.
Activity2:
Collection
Participants will arrange a meeting date and time with the CanSLAM circuit at their scene of interest. At that time, the scan will be performed and recorded for later editing.
Participants are encouraged to measure the scene as efficiently as possible while attempting 100% coverage of the scene. Participants will be required to record image data in specific locations but are free to move around the scene otherwise. Maps and control point locations are provided with the course descriptions.
Submission2:
Scanner Data
Participants will be required to submit the following information for each instrument they showcase:
- 'Raw,' onboard scanner data. Copy & paste of all onboard scanner data available immediately after scanning, but before post-processing.
- Self-Aligned point cloud, intensity only in laz format. Used to evaluate and answer the question of potential issues with 'trusting' the computer to reconstruct without alignment checking.
- Full copy of post-processing and export folders. This is to show data volume after post-processing and will include the following data:
a. A post-processed point cloud in [.las] format, intensity values only. This is the scanner data that has been adjusted through the introduction of control and human-performed alignment checks.
b. All images exported in “undistorted” [.jpg] format with associated external orientation parameter (EOP) data such as [.iprj],[.lst] files. If ‘undistorted’ images can’t be provided, standard [.jpg] files with [.csv] EOPs will be accepted.
c. A post-processing report documenting control alignment qualities and inter-scan alignment qualities
Register your Scanner(s) for the CanSLAM Circuit
Fill out the form below to submit as many platforms as you'd like for participation. There is no cost to participating in CanSLAM Circuit 2024 and the courses are being readied for your arrival.