3DEO, Inc.

@3deolidar.bsky.social

14 Followers 74 Following

We design, build and operate advanced airborne lidar systems for diverse government and commercial applications. https://imagery.3deolidar.com

Dale Fried presenting a slide at SPIE D+S.
Dale Fried presenting behind a podium which has a sign that says "SPIE".
Graphic of a welcome sign in an exhibit hall with overlayed text: We're exhibiting at #ISPRS2026 Join Us - Register Today ISPRS2026Toronto.com
A transect of a point cloud of a forest with different trees shown in different colors.
Height above ground classified point cloud from a collection done at 28,000 ft in Easley Missouri.
3DEO's 2026 Geo Week conference booth.
Candy on the 3DEO table.
A section of a point cloud ranging in color from blue to red based on 'z' or overall elevation and height. In the center of the section is two rows of powerlines, each with several distinct wires with forests on either side of the powerlines.
A section of a point cloud ranging in color from blue to red based on 'z' or overall elevation and height. In the center of the section is two rows of powerlines, each with several distinct wires with forests on either side of the powerlines.
Floor map of the expo hall with a large red arrow pointing to booth 1515 labeled 3DEO, Inc. The booth is two blocks up from the main entrance along the main isle on the right side of the room.
Chart with three columns titled: Zion, Wrangell, Sequoia. Rows have specs for each system. Zion: 3-12 kft flying height, 9-12 million denoised per second collection rate, 76 μrad ground spatial resolution or 19 cm at 8 kft, 40x40 field of regard, or -35 to +5 degrees cross track, 36 Watt laser power, 4 cm aperture. Wrangell: 5-16 kft flying height, 16-20 million denoised points per second at 8 kft, 76 μrad ground spatial resolution or 19 cm at 8 kft, 40 x 40 degree field of regard or -35 to +5 cross track, 50 Watt laser power, 4 cm aperture. Sequoia: 20-50 kft flying height, 20-30 million denoised points per second at 27 kft, 34 μrad ground spatial resolution or 29 cm at 27 kft, version 1 of Sequoia had 36 x 48 degree field of regard with -8 to +28 degree cross track while version 2 had 54 x 60 degree field of regard or -18 to +36 degree cross track, 100 watt laser power, 13 cm aperture. The final says all have been deployed operationally outside the US by government entities.
Screen shot of a digital elevation model of Missouri river bank collected with 3DEO's Sequoia system and colored by Z, or height above the lowest portion of the ground. The left portion of the image is deep blue with a cut of the river visible as a slightly winding loose rectangle. Towards the center of the image is more stark diversity in height, ranging from light blue to a vibrant green with small striped of yellow before the highest points are in orange and red. The majority of this section is green, indicating a 'medium' height with a few high ridgelines in red. The right edge of the image is all dark and light blue, indicating a much more flat area with small deep blue cuts into light blue ridges.
Selfie of Dale fried from 3DEO smiling with Michael Intschert from Talos Aviation with cacti and desert reed grass in the background.
A slide titled: Agile Geo-Referenced Multi-Polygon Scanning with a sub heading of: Possible collection types. Underneath these headings in the upper right side of the slide is the text 'Wide-area map swath' with a straight line of 8 blue rectangles in a row. Beneath it is the text 'Corridor' with 12 blue rectangles in a row, but partway through the row the rectangles curve around a bend. On the upper left portion of the slide is the words 'Single Target' with a single large hexagon underneath it. Beneath that is the text 'Array of targets' with three rows of ten small hexagons.
A slide from a presentation titled: Detecting Photons One by One. On the right half of the slide there is a simplified graphic of a plane with a red 'laser beam' coming out of the bottom which becomes more transparent as it follows over an image of a tree to the ground. Next to this image is the words: Simulation of 2000 laser pulses and a chart. The X axis is titles Return Signal Profile with a range from 0-50 and the Y axis is labeled Height in meters with range from 0-5. There is a long peak in the data ending in a point at 35 return signal, 5 meters; a shorter peak beneath it at 15 return signal 4.5 meters; another at 50 return signal 4 meters; again at 30 return signal at 3.8 meters; and finally two much shorter peaks below 10 return signal at .5 meters and 0 meters. Next to the chart is a text box that reads: Assumptions: Bin width = .5 ns Range Resolution - 20 FWHM Background = 1.4 x 10 to the negative fourth power per bin (NPE) = 0.2 (average number of photo-electrons per pulse)
3DEO employee speaking with past employees at 3DEO's 10th anniversary event.
Founder Dale Fried with 3DEO table at MIT Venture Mentoring Service's 25th anniversary event.
Image of a point cloud of a forest and buildings in Northern Idaho.
Dale Fried, CEO of 3DEO presenting at the 2018 MIT R+D Conference.
Photo taken of a beach out of the window of an airplane.
Selfie of 3DEO employees Dale and Brandon in an airplane.
4 partial scans from a 3D point cloud are represented separately, then once combined to form a very full and dense point cloud.
3DEO CEO Dale Fried working with Lidar Scientist Andras Galambos on a lidar sensor.
Group photo of members of 3DEO's Orem office on a hike, with mountains in the background.
Trevor Magnum sitting at a computer smiling in front of 3DEO signage at the 2025 Geo Week conference.
Large blue Geiger-mode lidar sensor sitting on a pallet.