Insights
Technical writing on geotechnical research, spatial computing, and engineering digitalisation
Notes, demonstrations, and technical write-ups from ongoing research and applied work. The focus is practical, real data, real pipelines, real results. If something here is relevant to a problem you are working on, get in touch.
What a $1,200 LiDAR Scanner Can Actually Do, and Why Intensity Matters
The Livox Mid-360 scanning a real workspace: indoor geometry, outdoor vegetation at 30m+, and what intensity colouring reveals about material classification without a camera.
Controlling a ROS2 LiDAR Pipeline from a Phone
A backpack scanning rig — Livox Mid-360, laptop, M12 cable — controlled entirely from a phone browser over a mobile hotspot. How the web app works, what it manages, and what comes next.
Automating Rock Joint Orientation Extraction from LiDAR Point Clouds
A walkthrough of the Fourier-based method developed during PhD research, from raw scan to structured discontinuity data without manual picking.
UAV Photogrammetry vs Terrestrial LiDAR for Pit Wall Mapping
A practical comparison of acquisition methods, accuracy trade-offs, and workflow implications for underground and open pit geotechnical applications.
Building a Real-Time Geotechnical Monitoring Dashboard in Python
From raw sensor feeds to an interactive web dashboard, architecture, libraries, and the lessons learned from deploying it in a live underground environment.