About Us

Our Technology

ClearEdge3D has a track record of technological innovation and thought leadership in the Automated Feature Extraction, laser scanning and 3D modeling space. The company was founded in 2006 by two recognized experts in the field of computer vision, hyper-spectral data analysis, and LIDAR data analysis. The first version of EdgeWise™, focused on building and terrain modeling, was launched in 2009 and rapidly gained customer traction and industry acclaim. In 2011 EdgeWise Plant™ was released for the process manufacturing and plant modeling industry.

In June 2011 we received a research grant from the National Science Foundation to dramatically expand and enhance our Automated Feature Extraction technology.

Leadership

The ClearEdge3D management team has more than fifty-five years’ experience creating software that solves problems for customers. We are a values-driven organization committed to over-delivering for our customers.

Christopher Scotton, President & CEO

Chris has more than 25 years experience building businesses in the software, telecommunications and search industries. Prior to joining ClearEdge, Chris was with CIT GAP Funds, a venture capital firm where he served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence, leading investments in numerous early-stage technology companies and coaching first-time CEOs. Prior to CIT, Chris was the Founder, President and CEO of Innovectra Corporation, a search engine software provider for localized searches. Before Innovectra he was the founder and managing Director of The Phillips Group, a telecommunications research and analysis firm that became one of the U.K.s fastest-growing technology companies.

Kevin Williams, Chief Scientist & CTO

Throughout his professional career, Kevin has been heavily involved in software development, mathematical modeling, and computer vision. He is recognized as a global thought-leader in computer vision technology having authored numerous papers and presented at technical symposia world-wide. Prior to ClearEdge3D, Williams was a senior staff scientist at SAIC, a billion-dollar defense contractor, where he authored both the RTV LIDAR Toolkit and the SAIC LIDAR Toolkit, which have been used successfully to automatically model millions of buildings from aerial LIDAR data.

Tim Lowery, VP Business Development

Tim Lowery is our VP Business Development, responsible for developing new customers and partnerships, driving business strategy, increasing brand awareness, channel development, and product distribution. Prior to joining ClearEdge3D, Tim spent more than thirteen years in channel development and sales at Ebara Technologies, Inc. where he was responsible for executive initiatives, developing and managing business strategies globally to enhance, grow, and recover client relationships.


News






EdgeWise Plant 2.0's automated cylinder extraction and batch processing helped Stantec reduce 3D modeling time by 50%. Our future projects will certainly use Edgewise Plant.
Kevin Grover, ALS, P.Eng., Practice Lead, Stantec Geomatics Ltd


Our team is laughing because what you just showed us in 10 minutes took us 4 hours to do.
Jody Lounsbury, HDS Manager, Clough Harbour & Associates


It is very simple to use and the developers have been very responsive to our needs.
Larry Kleinkemper, Owner,Architectural Vision


ClearEdge3D has come through again. The time savings for firms like ours could be substantial.
H. Tate Jones, President, LandAir Surveying, Inc.


EdgeWise is a fantastic breakthrough for the plant modeling industry.
Scott Cedarleaf, CEO, SkyBucket 3D, Inc.


Much of our billable work is in drafting services. With EdgeWise we can reduce our drafting time and costs, which makes us more competitive on bids and allows us to handle more projects simultaneously.
Nick Bobbitt, BIM Project Coordinator, 3D Imaging Services