GeoCue’s repository of articles covering tools, tips, and workflows for processing point clouds in LP360 Geospatial.
Relative vertical accuracy, or flight line offsets, or the swath-to-swath fit between flight lines or drive passes can be qualitatively assessed using dz images. Or quantitatively assessed by exporting and analyzing the values. The USGS LiDAR Base Specification has evolved over the years with some different recommendations for evaluating interswath (overlap) consistency, and there are…
Attempting to save an LP360 project results in “An error occurred updating the Project Catalog with Project:”, followed by “Detail: Error: Unable to open Projects File. Project not added to list. C:\ProgramData\LP360\PMProjects.json”. The global projects file, “%ProgramData%\LP360\PMProjects.json”, used by the LP360 Project Manager was created with administrator permissions when LP360 or TrueView EVO first launched…
Some LP360 Point Cloud Tasks (PCT’s) were originally designed for older manned lidar datasets, which have significantly lower point density than modern sUAS datasets. TrueView and other sUAS sensors have the capability of producing much denser point clouds, so these processes can take much longer if running on the entire dataset. A common strategy and workflow…
Classify by Elevation Quartiles In the Classify by Statistics PCT, the user can set the output of outliers and quartile classification using the standard output class/flag dialog. A little info regarding quartiles: https://byjus.com/maths/quartiles/. The section applicable to Quartile classification is shown in Figure 1: This classifier works as follows: The area to be processed (as determined…
The Image Explorer Drive Method determines the method used to sort matching imagery. Range will sort images by shortest distance from the camera position XYZ to the projected XYZ. Photo Center will sort images by the shortest distance from the photo center to the projected raster column and row. GPS Time will sort images by…
When generating a GeoTIFF orthomosaic raster using Metashape or importing a large ortho from third party software into LP360 or TrueView Evo, the initial file is written in BigTIFF format which is incompatible with some CAD software packages, including Civil3D. There are also size considerations to be factored in as some orthos can be dozens…
When generating a GeoTIFF Ortho using Metashape through LP360, the initial file is written in BigTIFF format which is incompatible with some CAD software packages, including Civil3D. There are also size considerations to be factored in as orthos that are generated in TIFF format are subject to the 32-bit size limit of 4GB. This article…
LP360 and True View Evo can handle importing many LAS files to a single LAS Layer, however, there is a limitation for importing many LAS files at one time using the normal Microsoft browse files dialog that is used by the typical add files process. If the user hits this limit, an “Inadequate Buffer Allocation:…
Receive an error message, “Executing task(s) failed (8690)” while trying to execute a Point Cloud Task. LP360 ErrorExecuting task(s) failed. (8690)Exception Information:HRESULT: 0x80004005Unable to retrieve extended COM error information. This is a catch all error message that generally occurs when something caused the PCT to fail in its execution. Verify the parameters for the desired…
