The first session of Geo Week 2026 in Denver, Colorado delivered major product announcements for the geospatial and survey industries. Hosted by Juan Plaza, CEO of Plaza Aerospace, the Product Preview Presentation I featured four technology companies presenting innovations spanning AI-powered LiDAR classification, real-time airborne mapping, Gaussian splat visualization, and 360-degree digital twin workflows.
GeoCue Group – LP360 Software | Darrick Wagg, VP of Customer Success
GeoCue Group opened the session with updates for LP360, its industry-leading LiDAR point cloud processing platform now in its 20th year of evolution. Version 26.1 is expected within the next month.
New Hardware Support
LP360 is adding support for the Riegl VQ-539, the NDAA-compliant Riegl VQ-641, and the upcoming Riegl VQ-651. A new photo kit for the TrueView Go enables 3D mesh modeling from field imagery. GeoCue also announced the Neo — a new, more affordable handheld LiDAR unit with full LP360 support coming soon.
AI Ground Plus: Beyond Ground Classification
The original AI Ground tool is being upgraded to AI Ground Plus, adding detection of bridge decks, vegetation types, vehicles, and water surfaces. For forestry, LP360's improved AI individual tree segmentation engine works across diverse forest types, outputting tree locations, crown delineation, and DBH estimates. The new AI Utilities Classification module handles conductors, jumper wires, guy wires, fences, tower locations, and catenary vectorization — with no user-side model training required.
3D Photo Engine and Gaussian Splat Generation
Coming later in 2026, LP360's new 3D Photo Engine will expand orthomosaic tools to include 3D mesh modeling and Gaussian splat generation. The LP360 Gaussian Splat Viewer is expanding with support for HBR's Open360 1.5 specification. Full cloud-based orthomosaic generation is already live.
GeoCue Group: Booth 1211
Flai – AI LiDAR Point Cloud Classification | Nejc Dougan, CTO
Flai is a European AI company specializing in deep learning for LiDAR point cloud classification, trusted by over 200 organizations across geospatial, aerospace, energy, government, and security sectors.
A Complete Library of Pretrained Classifiers
- Aerial Mapping Classifier — 20+ categories with benchmarks: 99%+ F1 on ground, 95%+ on buildings and wires, 90%+ on bridges
- Noise Filtering Classifier — Removes atmospheric noise and multi-target artifacts
- Utility Power Line Module — Conductors, jumper cables, shield wires, towers with catenary and tower location vector outputs
- Mobile Mapping Module — Ground, sidewalks, pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles, street lamps
- Defense and Security Module — Military objects using synthetic training data
- Topobathy Module — Water surface, water column, seabed, and aerial features simultaneously
- Forestry Module — Tree trunks, canopies, fallen trees with DBH estimation and biomass analysis
- Railroad Module — Tracks, conductors, and railroad infrastructure asset mapping
- Indoor / BIM Module (in active development) — Indoor facility classification and BIM/Revit cleanup
Accuracy, Speed, and Deployment
Clients report "90–95% reductions in manual QC editing time" on complex projects. Processing runs at approximately 9 minutes per square mile at 30 pts/m² on a single machine, with linear scaling and multi-node GPU/CPU distribution support. Training data spans 60+ countries and all major sensor manufacturers.
Deployment options include managed AWS cloud (pay-per-consumption) or self-hosted on-premises configurations including air-gapped and edge setups. Private model retraining is available with full data and model ownership.
Nejc Dougan is also presenting a deeper session on Power Line Classification and Vegetation Management — Tuesday at 12:30 PM in Ballroom 1C.
Flai: Booth 609 — Free trial available at the booth or via the Flai web app.
Teledyne Optech – Galaxy, Stratus, Echo One, Fathom | Mark Treiber, Product Manager
Mark Treiber delivered the session's most hardware-dense presentation — spanning real-time airborne processing, a new compact Galvo sensor, a UAV LiDAR system finally shipping, and a topobathy platform nearing qualification.
Onboard Gen 2: Now Standard on All Galaxy Systems
Onboard Gen 2 delivers full-resolution 2 MHz point cloud processing at an average of 3 returns in real time during flight. Customers land with under 10 cm line-to-line matching and can deliver hazard reports within 24–48 hours. New software includes 33% faster processing, Combined Density Display, and Auto-Reply flight line prompts. Now standard on all Galaxy and Galaxy Edge systems.
New Sensor: Teledyne Stratus
The Stratus is an 8 kg Galvo-based sensor for fixed-wing drones and smaller platforms. Operational to 1,200 m altitude with 2 MHz capability, up to 7 returns. Supports wide-angle survey and narrow corridor collection with absolute accuracy of approximately 3–7 cm.
Echo One: Shipping Q2 2026
The Echo One NDAA and FCC compliant UAV LiDAR enters qualification with new orders shipping Q2 2026. It offers an 800-foot swath at 400-foot altitude, 80 pts/m², up to 8 returns, native colorization, and oblique FOV for utility corridor mapping.
Fathom Topobathy: Demos Q2 2026
Fathom combines bathymetric LiDAR, topographic LiDAR, and RGB/Near-IR camera in one platform — achieving IHO Special Order accuracy. Demos begin Q2 2026. The new Bathymetric Project Partnership Program reduces entry risk for customers new to bathymetric LiDAR collection.
Teledyne Optech: Booth 1303
Cintoo – Reality Capture SaaS Platform | Dominique Pouliquen, CEO
Dominique Pouliquen closed the session with platform updates and a landmark announcement for Cintoo (C2) — a cloud SaaS platform for scan-to-BIM, scan-vs-BIM, and digital twin workflows. Available in BIM Edition and Twin Edition.
Mesh Streaming in ESRI ArcGIS
C2 now streams high-resolution 3D meshes inside ESRI ArcGIS via a free widget for ArcGIS Enterprise Builder. BP is already using this in their BP One Map portal, giving all stakeholders on-demand access to scan data within ArcGIS.
Scalability, Click-On-Tag, and P&ID Viewer
Projects with 16,500+ scans now load in C2 in seconds. The new Click-On-Tag AI feature creates complex 3D asset tags with a single pixel click. The new P&ID viewer links 2D diagrams directly to 3D asset tags — closing the documentation-to-digital-twin loop.
Major Announcement: Cintoo 360 Edition (Partnership with Ricoh)
The Cintoo 360 Edition, built in partnership with Ricoh, brings 360-degree video, 3D Gaussian splats, LiDAR scans, and BIM/CAD models together in a single aligned 3D environment. The Ricoh Theta X feeds data automatically to Cintoo via Wi-Fi. Cintoo generates camera paths and Gaussian splats with automatic face blurring. The full workflow — capture to processed environment — was demonstrated in under 3 minutes by a first-time user.
Cintoo Convergence User Group: Day 2, 9:00–11:00 AM — 2-minute walk from the convention center. Register at the booth.
Cintoo: Booth 1029
The Bigger Picture: What Geo Week 2026 Tells Us About the Industry
AI is the new baseline. Every company on stage has embedded AI classification into their core product. The conversation has shifted from whether AI works to how fast and how accurately.
Speed to deliverable is the new competitive metric. Real-time airborne processing, 90% QC time savings, and 16,000-scan platforms loading in seconds — accuracy plus velocity is the new benchmark.
Gaussian splats are a first-class output format. Three of four presenters cited Gaussian splat generation as a 2026 priority. This format has crossed from novelty to production workflow.
The barriers to entry are falling. Cintoo's 360 Edition, Flai's off-the-shelf pretrained models, and Teledyne's Bathymetric Project Partnership all reflect an industry actively working to bring more users and more projects into spatial data workflows.
