César Andrés López López

"An unmanned in-flight vehicle of Dersis Enterprise, flies over the city hall of Tabio at about 45 km of Bogota (Colombia), this homemade manufactured device is taking several photographs with specific characteristics that reflect, at a very high precision, the reality observed through its cameras.

The system developed by Lopez, called TerrainLogics, is capable of generating a three-dimensional model of Tabio’s streets with a resolution of about 1 centimeter per pixel.

When Lopez took over Darsis in 2009, the company was practically out of work. He dedicated his time to do topography studies with traditional methods for the other Emdepa organizations, but his income reached only 250 million pesos (approx. 136.000 dollars).

Lopez has developed another system called Phondata, patented in Colombia. It is capable of capturing and transmitting data of a land in the real time zone, from a conventional mobile device. Encouraged by Phondata’s success, Lopez created, in 2010 his new topology, topography and a three - dimensional extraction system by photogrammetric movement: TerrainLogics, which had begun to be marketed in mid 2011.

In addition to the advantages that it brings to the engineers (like reducing costs of topography up to a 40 percent), Lopez believes that each person should have tools “to digitalize or scan the world”. With this target, he launched the Webb Site 3dtubeme.com, in April 2011; where every user was able to generate 3D models based on several photos taken with their mobiles. The result was a huge and unexpected avalanche that saturated the servers and forced them to close the domain."