Abstract

Navigating LiDAR Efforts
Track: Electric Utilities
Authors: Richard Garcia, John Hansen

LiDAR acquisition of Tri-State transmission assets to respond to the NERC Facility Ratings Methodology Level 2 Alert issued on October 7, 2010 was initiated in June of 2011. The main driver of this project is to confirm that Tri-State asset's actual field conditions match design and operational criteria for voltage levels 100kV and above. It was initially realized that this investment presents a unique opportunity to supplement and integrate existing locational data with highly accurate spatial information of assets.
As the project progressed, priorities and needs changed along with the availability and development of technology resources. This presentation will be a follow up to Tri-State's LiDAR data acquisition project. It will discuss not only the development of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) through the LiDAR project utilizing esri resources, but cover some of the project development challenges that can arise.