Kudan Inc. announced that a drone solution provider from a pan, operating for the global mar mar ketanese drone solution provider, operating for the global mar ketanese drone solution company decided to commercially release its product powered by Kudan Lidar SLAM (KdLidar). Aerial 3D surveying drones is in growing demand in the civil engineering, construction, and infrastructure industries as an efficient and low-cost approach. However, conventional 3D surveying with drones, which are not adopted by SLAM technology but only used by Lidar, cannot perform continuous mapping from the air to the ground in environments where drones cannot fly or GNSS/GPS cannot reach, and this product has been an operational challenge.

Kudan's SLAM technology and shall be generalized as a mapping device that is usable not only mounted on a drone but also hand-held, enabling continuous mapping from the ground by transferring the sensor to a hand-held device, in addition to conventional mapping from the air. As a result, this enables efficient 3D surveying with the same system in forests, civil engineering sites, urban areas, and other environments where a drone alone could not create a comprehensive digital mapping to the ground. These cutting-edge projects need software technology that could be flexibly integrated with the hardware configurations required by the cuomer, and Kudan's technology, which provides commercial-grade SLAM algorithms for mobile mapping, has been selected.

Demand for advanced SLAM technology for mobile mapping, including drones, is growing, and Kudan will continue to contribute to the spread and advancement of mobile mapping products in J apan and globally.