WGI Inc.: WGI Takes Home MAPPS 2020 Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Award TAMPA, FL / ACCESSWIRE / February 23, 2021 / During the Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS) 2021 Winter Meeting, MAPPS honored WGI with its 2020 Geospatial Excellence Award in the category of Geospatial for Data Acquisition and Processing. WGI was recognized for its excellence in LiDAR collection and processing for the East Selmon Expressway project, from North Morgan Street to Interstate 75, in Tampa, FL. WGI assisted the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) with this data acquisition for the Project Development and Environmental (PD&E) Study of the East Selmon Expressway. This section of the Expressway is a highly trafficked transportation route connecting Tampa's suburbs to its downtown. The Expressway links two of the most travelled interstates in Florida. The nine-mile roadway contains 46 bridges and 34 ramps that connect to 14 intersection roads and two interstate systems. WGI created an accurate survey control network and collected 85 miles of Terrestrial Mobile LiDAR (TML) data while also using two static LiDAR scanning systems. The adjusted and merged 3D point clouds from the scanning allowed for the precise mapping and modeling of the corridor, producing a merged 3D model and database.