Session Resource Guide
Reality Capture Readiness Guide
A fillable worksheet to define your capture requirements, compare collection methods and scope a reusable infrastructure dataset. Complete it on screen, save it, print it or forward it to colleagues.
From Reality Capture to Infrastructure Intelligence
About this session
Local government cannot effectively manage infrastructure it cannot accurately see.
This session examines how communities use modern reality-capture methods — mobile mapping, terrestrial scanning, aerial collection and imagery — to build reliable digital records of roads, sidewalks, signs, pavement, structures, vegetation and utilities.
The goal is a reusable infrastructure dataset that serves public works, transportation, engineering, accessibility, planning, emergency response and long-term asset management, rather than a one-off project deliverable.
Suggested prompts
Think about these first
- Describe the last infrastructure decision your team made with incomplete data. What was missing?
- List every department that has collected field data in the past two years. Where did that data go?
- If you could capture only one corridor this year, which one would return the most value, and why?
- What accuracy do you actually need — and what are you assuming you need?
- Who in your organization would own a shared reality-capture dataset?
For the panel
Questions for speakers and panelists
- What accuracy and resolution did you specify, and would you change it today?
- How did you decide between mobile mapping, terrestrial scanning and aerial collection?
- How did you fund the first capture, and how are you funding recurring capture?
- How did you get multiple departments to agree on one dataset and one set of specifications?
- What did you underestimate about storage, hosting and serving 3D data?
- What would you tell an agency doing this for the first time to avoid?
1. Business requirements
Define why your agency is capturing the public realm before choosing a method.
2. Accuracy and collection method
3. Foundation and governance
Session notes
Space to capture what you hear during the presentations and panel discussion.