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2024

• June, 2024
  • Dr. Olsen present results from FHWA Pocket Lidar study at UESI Surveying & Geomatics 2024 Conference in Corvallis, OR.
• April, 2024
  • Dr. Che and Dr. Olsen received a US Patent (US-11965967-B2) for their method for detecting intersection edges from 3D point clouds.
  • Dr. Che presented results from the FHWA Pocket Lidar study at the Oregon Department of Transportation Surveyors’ Conference 2024 in Albany, OR.
• January, 2024
  • Dr. Che and Dr. Olsen received a US Patent (US-11885911-B2) for their efficient trajectory reconstruction method from mobile lidar point clouds.

2023

• October, 2023
  • Dr. Olsen presented results from the FHWA Pocket Lidar study at the IHeep Conference in Salt Lake City, UT.
• September, 2023
  • Dr. Olsen presented results from the FHWA Pocket Lidar study at the AASHTO Committee on Construction Annual Meeting in Kansas City, MO.
  • Dr. Jung started a new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Engineering, Gyeongsang National University.
• July, 2023
  • Dr. Olsen presented results from the FHWA Pocket Lidar study at the Surveying and Geomatics Educators Society Conference in Calgary, Canada.
• February, 2023
  • Dr. Che presented resutls from FHWA Pocket Lidar study at Geo Week in Denver Colorado.
• January, 2023
  • Dr. Che and Dr. Olsen received a US patent (US-11567207-B2) for the Norvana segementation and feature extraction framework. (Janurary, 2023)

2022

• • Dr. Olsen presents research on pocket lidar systems at the AASHTO Committee on Construction Annual Meeting. Create a Clone with your Phone: Using LiDAR Technology to Support Highway Construction
  • Dr. Che and OSU Geomatics is recognized at Geo Week as for the “Outstanding University Achievement in Lidar” for the Lidar Leader Awards for the Vo-Norvana algorithm and its capabilities to efficiently process large point cloud data. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7DaTwExORQ
  • Dr. Che and Dr. Olsen receive a provisional patent for the Norvana algorithm.

2021

• • Dr. Ezra Che’s paper on VoSmog Ground Filtering receives the Inaugural Martin Isenburg Best Paper Award at 3DGeoInfo

• • EZDataMD presents Vo-Norvana and ROME in “Efficient Point Cloud Segmentation of Transportation Assets for Improving the Workability of Lidar Data” at the TRB AKD70 Summer Meeting.
    https://vimeo.com/449411214
  • Capabilities of EzDataMD LLC’s Vo-norvana segmentation software are discussed in a UC Davis/AHMCT report reviewing lidar processing software

2020

• • EZDataMD LLC is formed as a tech transfer company out of Oregon State University in March 2020.