Over the past decades, the demand for land related digital information has grown at an exceedingly rapid rate. The driving force behind this growth has been the development of computer databases and especially geographic information systems (GIS). These types of applications are often used to meet infrastructure network goals in a variety of fields. The need to build, maintain, and manage the asset inventory of an infrastructure network may be associated with operations relative to maintenance, procurement, valuation, traffic, safety and emergency response issues, or the requirement may originate in legislature. Traditional survey methods can be used to acquire the inventory data; however, these techniques are extremely time consuming and expensive. As such, public agencies, as well as private organizations, are increasingly searching for alternative approaches to perform the inventory of their network infrastructure assets. In response to these requirements, technology is constantly progressing towards efficacious solutions, such as mobile mapping. Within the mobile mapping sector, the most recent advancements have involved automation.
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