Aerial LiDAR survey begins for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project

New Delhi, March 8 : The National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) on Monday said it has once again started the Aerial LiDAR survey for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project to capture the data related to the vertical ground profile.
NHSRCL spokesperson Sushma Gaur said: “The Aerial LiDAR survey for capturing the data related to vertical profile of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail (HSR) corridor, for 88 km between Ahmedabad and Vadodara and 237 km from Vadodara to Vapi, all in Gujarat, started on Monday.” She said that the study will help to set the vertical ground profile along the alignment, which shall be the basis for subsequent design including the pier design along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR corridor.
Gaur added that the aerial survey, with LiDAR equipment and high-resolution camera mounted on Aircraft can cover 200 km alignment in a day.
“The required data is expected to be captured in two flights over 3-4 days,” she said.
According to NHSRCL, the aerial LiDAR survey was first used on the same corridor. It has recently carried out the LiDAR survey for other proposed high speed corridors in the country.