Tetsuya Shimozawa, Construction Section Assistant Manager of Construction Department, shared specifically about the application and effectiveness of the GLS-2000. “We are utilizing the GLS-2000 over a wide range of tasks from checking designs in surveying before construction, preparing construction work plans, to checking quantities and measuring after the completed work. To determine the effect of introducing GLS-2000, we compared five job sites that used the GLS-2000 with past job sites that used conventional measurement methods. Surprisingly, the results show that the operator workload was reduced by 70%. To be honest, we had not expected that we would see such a dramatic difference.”
The GLS-2000 also demonstrated outstanding performance when restoring damage caused by natural disasters such as landslides. Shimozawa continued, “We can measure inaccessible locations from safe places, and in addition, the process is fast. We actually had a case when we used the GLS-2000 to measure a site where a landslide happened at the end of last year, and we were able to respond to disaster-relief work quickly.”

KYOUSEI is planning to use GLS-2000 for various applications such as operation and maintenance service for infrastructure. Ofuji said, “Possible examples of applications include displacement measurements, which regularly observes steep terrains and wave-dissipating blocks on the coast, and deterioration measurements of structures made of concrete. There are more possible examples of application that I can think of right off the top of my head. We may be able to measure the cross sections of overhangs or busy roads which cannot be measured by UAV.”
To further deepen the understanding of the characteristics of the GLS-2000, the company continues to verify how objects, installation places, time periods, and other factors that have impact on acquiring point cloud data. The company’s enthusiastic attitude is very impressive.