Month: April 2015

New to LIDAR processing and looking for some reference material to strengthen your knowledge in the field?

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May we suggest the following: Airborne Topographic Lidar Manual by Michael Renslow, Editor https://eserv.asprs.org/web/staticcontent/staticpages/4587.htm Topographic Laser Ranging & Scanning Principles & Process by Jie Shan and Charles Toth https://eserv.asprs.org/web/staticcontent/staticpages/4583.htm  Digital Elevation Model Technologies & Applications, 2nd Ed. by David F. Maune, Editor https://eserv.asprs.org/web/staticcontent/staticpages/1069.htm

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TerraMatch found “0 tie lines”

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Problem:  When searching for tie lines in TerraMatch the “found 0 tie lines” message appears quite quickly. Solution: Double check that your trajectories and data align, and that the settings match your data. Verify that the flight line number of the trajectories corresponds to the flight line number assigned to the points. Draw the trajectories…

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Terrasolid Support Services

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Maintaining maintenance on your Terrasolid software products is more than just gaining access to all software releases during the maintenance period.  In addition, it allows access to our wide range of support and training services: Customer Advisory Bulletins; An online searchable knowledgebase, support.GeoCue.com, for finding solutions to frequently asked questions, technical insights, general inquiries, and also for…

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Error Launching LP360 Standalone

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User receives an error message stating, “The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142).” when attempting to launch LP360 for Windows (32-bit or 64-bit). The error concerning the application being unable to start correctly is likely occurring due to either: another program using the same DLL’s as LP360, a virus, or Group Policy Objects. Option…

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Customizing MicroStation v8i

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One of the major benefits of the Terrasolid suite of products being MDL applications that run on top of MicroStation is that MicroStation provides the CAD platform and many tools that can be used during LIDAR and image processing. MicroStation is designed to facilitate production environments by allowing customizations that aid with productivity. MicroStation v8i…

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TerraMatch Tie Lines – Getting Started

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The tie line tools within TerraMatch provide a flexible toolset with a wide range of capabilities for calibrating LIDAR data for both airborne laser scanners and mobile laser scanners. The kind of data you are working with will affect the desired settings and workflow. The best place to always start is with the TerraMatch User Guide,…

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Recommended Hardware & Software

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In this appendix that generally accompanies proposals for our GeoCue Workflow Management software we provide general hardware and software recommendations.  Please note that these recommendations are not the minimum requirements for GeoCue products (the system can run on much lesser configurations than our recommendations).  These are recommendations based on our experiences with clients involved in…

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Setting the Overlap classification flag

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LAS v1.4 introduced the concept of the Overlap classification flag. Since this new flag did not previously exist in the classification code byte, the class offsets discussed here do not apply to the Overlap classification flag. A user would need to have both LP360 and TerraScan in order to properly identify and flag overlap points.…

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LAS v1.4 Conversion

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If you are involved in airborne LIDAR workflows in North America, you will immediately understand the value of supporting LAS Version 1.4, Point Data Record Format 6 for your end-to-end workflow as this will be the required deliverable format for the USGS 3D Elevation Program. Of course, this will drive all standard airborne LIDAR deliverables…

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Ground Coordinate Systems

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Purpose: This technical note explains Grid-to-ground projections (AKA “ground coordinates”, “surface coordinates”, “localized coordinate networks”, etc.) within GeoCue. A ground coordinate system is a local coordinate system created by modifying the origin and scale of an existing projected coordinate system, such as a state plane or UTM grid system. The ground system is tied to…

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