Spar Point Research announced today key speakers, topics and sponsors for the company’s seventh annual conference, SPAR 2010, to be held Feb. 8-10, 2010 at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, The Woodlands (Houston), Texas.

SPAR 2010 aims to inform and guide professionals with fresh information and insights about applying 3D scanning and imaging technologies to mitigate risk, boost efficiency and improve safety for private-sector design, construction, asset owner firms and public-sector mapping as well as security planning and criminal investigation organizations. SPAR 2009 attracted more than 635 attendees from 27 countries.

SPAR 2010 featured presenters include:

• Allan Carswell, Chairman & President, Optech, Inc., "The Future of LIDAR: From Sea to Space and Beyond"
• Paul Feist, Commander, Albuquerque Police Department, “Capturing Metrological Data”
• Mike Harrison, President, Diamond West Engineering, and Michael Frecks, PLS, President & CEO, Terrametrix LLC, “3D Terrestrial Mobile LIDAR: Surveyors Who Know Accuracy”
• Bart Hoogeboom, Forensic Analyst, Netherlands Forensic Institute, "3D Computer Models and Scenario Testing in Forensic Investigations"
• Danny Hughes, Florida Power & Light, and Paul Nicholas, Product Manager, AREVA, "Total Station and Scanning Technology: Pros and Cons"
• Raymond Mandli, President, Mandli Communications, Inc., and Goro Sulijoadikusumo, Planning Survey Engineer/GIS Administrator, Hawaii DOT, “The Collection and Use of Network-Level Terrestrial LIDAR for State DOTs”
• Dana (Deke) K. Smith, Executive Director, buildingSMART Alliance, "Delivering Open BIM Standards for the Built Environment"
• Josh Oakley, BIM Manager, The Beck Group, “Building a Complete and Accurate BIM Database”
• Douglas Pritchard, Head of Visualization, Digital Design Studio/Glasgow School of Art, “Documenting Scotland's Built Heritage: Recent Collaborative Projects Between Historic Scotland and the Glasgow School of Art”
• Dr. Roger Stettner, President & CEO, Advanced Scientific Concepts, Inc., "ASC's 3D Flash LIDAR Cameras: A Revolutionary 3D Camera Technology”
• Michael Olsen, Assistant Professor of Geomatics, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University, “Efficiency Evaluation of Seacliff Erosion Studies Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning”
• Steven DiBenedetto, Technical Team Leader, Underground Imaging Technologies, Inc., “Bringing 3D Underground: Advances in Subsurface Three-Dimensional Imaging”
• Elin Katrine Morgan, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, “Laser Scanning in Active Tunnels: A ‘Real World’ Example in the Løren Tunnel in Oslo, Norway”
• Dr. Liang  Tang, President & CEO, Tecdawn HT Co., Ltd., “LiDAR Mapping and 3D Modelling for the Public Security at the 11th China Games”
• James Loumiet, President, James R. Loumiet & Associates, Inc., “Laser Scanning and Virtual Reality for Data Collection and Analysis in Transportation Accident Reconstruction”

Special highlights of SPAR 2010 include:

• Construction sessions on understanding Scan-to-BIM workflows for building and civil infrastructure projects
• Demonstrations on integrating scan data with piping, structural and other design applications
• Highlights of how point cloud technology is going mainstream in major CAD programs, and how improved processing and deliverable extraction software is improving work processes
• Civil infrastructure and industrial plant boot camps and, new this year, a mobile scanning/mapping boot camp
• Fresh security planning and forensic case studies on high-profile events, officer-involved shootings, homicide investigations and methods for detecting improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
• Mobile scanning demos by earthmine, Optech, StreetMapper/Terrametrix/GeoDigital, TITAN, Topcon and Trimble
• Exhibition floor with more than 30 suppliers and nine industry association partners
• Vendor-presented technical seminars on various concentrated topics related to data collection and processing
• Education credits for professional engineers and land surveyors

Premium sponsors for SPAR 2010 include AVEVA, ESRI, FARO Technologies, Intelisum, Leica Geosystems, Optech, Topcon, Trimble and Z&F. Corporate sponsors include Applanix, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, ClearEdge3D, COADE, CSA, earthmine, GeoDigital, INOVX, InnovMetric, kubit, Maptek I-SiTE, MDL, PenBay Solutions, Pointools, Riegl USA, StreetMapper, Surphaser (Basis Software), Terrametrix, Velodyne and Zebra Imaging. Service provider sponsors include Critigen, Quantapoint and TITAN. ACSM, ASCE, ASTM, CMSC, CyArk, FSM, GITA, MAPPS and SPED are association sponsors. The American Surveyor, Asian Surveying & Mapping, Geomatics World, Geo:connexion International, GIM International, Hydro International, Marine Log, POB, Professional Surveyor and V1 Magazine are media sponsors.

For complete conference details and to register for SPAR 2010, visit http://www.sparllc.com.

About Spar Point Research

Spar Point Research (www.sparllc.com) investigates and reports on 3D scanning, imaging and position capture technologies used to improve the productivity, quality, safety and risk profile of engineering, fabrication, construction and manufacturing operations. The company's annual SPAR conferences in the United States and Japan attract project managers, engineering and technical leads, industrial metrologists and surveyors. The events also showcase new data capture and processing technologies used for 3D surveying and dimensional control for work on offshore platforms, nuclear power plant modifications, refinery revamps, discrete and process manufacturing, transportation, building and civil infrastructure projects, historic preservation as well as forensic investigations and security planning.