LiDAR scanning in Lithuania and the Baltics
Mobile LiDAR scanning and 3D laser scanning
AKYS runs mobile LiDAR surveys across Lithuania, the Baltics and the EU from its base in Vilnius. Dual high-density LiDAR mounted on a vehicle measures streets at traffic speed and returns a georeferenced point cloud accurate to ±3 cm, delivered as .las/.laz for your CAD, GIS or BIM workflow, and captured in the same pass as 11K 360° imagery and AI detection.
What LiDAR actually measures
LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a ranging instrument, not a camera. It fires laser pulses at its surroundings and times the return of each one. Each timed return becomes a measured 3D coordinate, and millions of them together become a point cloud: the true geometry of a road, kerb, pole or facade, with real distances baked in rather than inferred.
That distinction matters when you need to work with the data. A photograph tells you a sign exists; a point cloud tells you how high it stands, how far it leans, and exactly where it sits in your coordinate system. This is why LiDAR is the measurement backbone of every AKYS deliverable; the digital twin and the AI asset inventory are both anchored to it.
Works in darkness
LiDAR emits its own laser pulses, so it needs no daylight or street lighting to measure.
±3 cm georeferenced
RTK-GNSS plus a 6-axis IMU. Every sensor stream is hardware-synchronised.
Dual LiDAR heads
Front near-360° for the corridor, rear tilted for road surface and overhead infrastructure.
Anonymised on capture
AI models blur faces and licence plates before the data is stored.
Mobile LiDAR versus static tripod scanning
Traditional 3D laser scanning puts the scanner on a tripod. It measures everything visible from one spot, then gets carried a few dozen metres down the road and does it again. The geometry is excellent, but a few kilometres of street costs days of field time, and each new setup is another scan to register into the last.
Mobile LiDAR inverts the arrangement: the sensors move, and the rig knows where it is at every instant from RTK-GNSS and the IMU. Instead of stitching dozens of stationary scans together, you get one continuous cloud of even density running the length of the route, collected at traffic speed, tens of kilometres a day, without closing a single lane. How that capture is planned and run is covered on the mobile mapping page.
Density is a project variable rather than a fixed number: driving speed, the number of passes and the sensor configuration all move it. Tell us what your survey has to resolve and we will size the capture for it.
Sensors on the scanning rig
LiDAR does not ride alone. On the same synchronised, georeferenced timeline it travels with 11K 360° vision, stereo depth and thermal, which is what lets a single drive serve both a survey and an AI analysis.
| LiDAR | Dual high-density mobile LiDAR: front near-360°, rear tilted for road surface and overhead infrastructure |
|---|---|
| 360° vision | Insta360 Titan: 11K resolution, 10-bit colour |
| Stereo depth | 2 × ZED 2i (front and rear), real-time 3D depth |
| Thermal | LWIR thermal imaging: heat loss and low-visibility capture |
| Context vision | 5 × fisheye cameras, full 360° surround context |
| Positioning | RTK-GNSS + 6-axis IMU: ±3 cm, hardware-synchronised and georeferenced |
| Environmental | PM2.5 / PM10, VOC, CO2, temperature, humidity, acoustic profiling |
| Deliverables | .las / .laz point clouds, 11K 360° panoramas, web digital twin, GeoJSON / CSV |
How LiDAR fuses with 11K imagery and AI
Geometry and colour answer different questions, and hardware synchronisation is what lets them answer one question together. The Insta360 Titan captures at 11K in 10-bit colour, fine enough for a model to read a sign face, a hairline crack or a worn lane line that lower-resolution street imagery simply loses. The LiDAR supplies the coordinates that pin each of those observations to a place on the map.
AKYS runs custom-trained AI models over the fused capture. They detect road signs, potholes, cracks and asphalt damage, faded or worn markings, poles, crosswalks, street lights and vegetation risk (each tagged with GPS coordinates), plus lane detection and semantic segmentation that separates roadway from pavement, buildings and vegetation. Before anything is stored, dedicated models blur faces and licence plates in line with EU GDPR. The detection stack is detailed on the AI detection page, and the 11K sensor on the 360° Photography page.
What teams use the point clouds for
Road condition surveys
Surface deformation, potholes and cracking measured in 3D with coordinates attached.
Asset inventory
Signs, lighting poles and barriers: position, height and lean read straight from the cloud.
Design, CAD and BIM
As-built existing conditions in .las/.laz for designers, contractors and surveyors.
Digital twins
The measurement base for a semantic urban digital twin.
Frequently asked questions
What is LiDAR scanning and what is a point cloud?
LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging. The sensor fires laser pulses at its surroundings and times how long each one takes to come back, which turns every return into a measured 3D coordinate. Millions of those coordinates together form a point cloud: a georeferenced record of the real geometry of a street, a facade or a piece of infrastructure, rather than a picture of it.
How is mobile LiDAR different from static tripod 3D laser scanning?
A static scanner measures from one fixed position and has to be moved every few dozen metres, so a city street takes days and every setup adds another registration step. AKYS mounts dual LiDAR on a vehicle and scans while driving at traffic speed, covering tens of kilometres per day with no road closures and producing one continuous point cloud along the whole route.
How accurate is an AKYS LiDAR survey?
Geospatial accuracy is ±3 cm. It comes from RTK-GNSS positioning combined with a 6-axis IMU, and every sensor stream on the rig is hardware-synchronised and georeferenced, so the LiDAR returns, the 11K imagery and the position solution all describe the same moment in time.
What LiDAR deliverables do I receive, and in what format?
Point clouds are delivered as .las or .laz files, which import directly into standard CAD, GIS and BIM software. Alongside them you can receive 11K 360° panoramas, a browser-based digital twin, and an AI-generated asset inventory as GeoJSON or CSV with GPS coordinates.
Does LiDAR scanning work at night, and where in Lithuania do you scan?
Yes. LiDAR is an active sensor: it emits its own laser pulses, so it does not depend on daylight and works in darkness. An LWIR thermal camera adds a further layer in low-visibility conditions. AKYS is based in Vilnius and scans across Lithuania, including Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, as well as the wider Baltics and the EU.
Request a pilot scan
Pick a stretch of your city and we will scan it, then show you the actual output: the point cloud, the 11K imagery and the objects our models found. Pricing is quoted per project, based on route length, accuracy and the deliverables you need.