Sergio Aguayo, senior photogrammetrist at Aurora’s Merrick & Co., recently won first place in the International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) “LiDAR as Art” contest, announced by GeoDigital International. The awards program, recently established, held its first competition at the end of 2011. Contestants were required to take airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) images and create art from the data.
Aguayo’s submittal entitled “Lighting Up the Night” consists of five images captured from a testing site in Utah. After reviewing the images, Aguayo’s inspiration came from imagining driving on a road under a dramatic night sky with a light source illuminating his way home. He added birds to create depth and reality to the image. In order to keep the visual impact of the image, Aguayo kept the LiDAR points visible.