. >> i'm richard hasler. i work at trumble as a market manager. i have been working on the atlantic slave trade project three or four years and as part of that project, jobie has asked us to help document some slave houses in the virginia area. with this particular house we're trying to capture laser scans of the entire exterior and interior of the house. when we laser scan, we run it on a tripod and replace it with a cram that can take panoramic slr images and we can map the color from those images onto the laser scanned provides a three-dimensional point cloud we can use our models and sketch software and other packages to pull measurements and other kinds of useful information out of it. >> how did they get involved in doing this project? >> one of the vice presidents, foster, is very passionate about south africa and spent many years there. because of that he has the ability to help trimble choose which philanthropic projects to do. we got together in the past with a company that documents world heritage sites around the world digitally and we