#27 - Nate Dang and Kevin Grover

About this episode

Angus discusses innovative surveying techniques with Nate Dang and Kevin Grover, focusing on a project that integrates various data capture methods.

In this episode, Angus talks with Nate Dang of Accurate Surveying & Mapping and Kevin Grover, Head of Customer Success at Looq AI, about pushing reality capture into everyday surveying. They walk through an award‑winning project on a historic opera house in Soldier, Idaho, where Nate deliberately skipped the total station and combined Looq's handheld QCAM imagery with GNSS and drone data to deliver survey‑grade results. The conversation explores hardware and workflow, how Looq's imagery‑only approach compares to lidar, where AI actually adds value, and why dense, intelligent photo‑based datasets can finally make photogrammetry practical for "bread and butter" topo and design jobs. It is a nuts‑and‑bolts look at turning R&D into reliable production work.

People in this episode

Host: Angus

Guests: Nate Dang, Kevin Grover

Topics covered

• reality capture
• surveying
• photogrammetry
• AI in surveying
• workflow
• hardware

Keywords

• surveying
• reality capture
• photogrammetry
• GNSS
• drone data
• AI
• Looq
• total station
• QCAM imagery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Accurate Surveying & Mapping, Looq AI

Places: Soldier, Idaho

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