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GeoCue’s repository of TrueView tools, tips and workflows for the TrueView line of drone mapping products. Includes former AirGon products such as Loki and ASPSuite.

Photoscan – Not Recognizing Nvidia Graphics Card

If Photoscan is not recognizing your Nvidia graphics card, you may need to update your graphics card driver. Here is the procedure to follow: Download latest Geforce Experience application Update Geforce Experience Download latest driver using Geforce Experience Install driver with Geforce Experience Restart computer Once the computer has rebooted, check Photoscan and verify that…

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Unable to open the las file (17657)

Symptom: When adding LAS files to LP360 a message appears in the message column of the Add Files dialog stating, “Unable to open the LAS file (17657)” Probable Resolution: Verify that the LAS file is not open in another program or by another process. Verify that you have read permissions, or read/write depending on the…

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Failed to open the file for read/write. The file cannot be edited. (18309)

Problem: Receive an LP360 COM Exception attempting to open files for read/write. Caller’s Message: Failed to open the file for read/write. The file ‘D:\Client_Data\sample.las’ cannot be edited. (18309) Exception Information: HRESULT: 0x0 Unable to retrieve extended COM error information. Probable Resolution: Verify that the files are not open for read in another session or program.…

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New Contour Smoothing Algorithm

The new and improved contour smoothing algorithm removes noisy data which causes contour jaggedness by interpolating the Z elevation around contour levels, thereby smoothing the surface and creating much better contours. This display works for both the Map View and 3D view when the user has turned on this setting via the usual Smooth Contours…

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Basic Filter

The Basic Filter Point Cloud Task (PCT) allows you to define one or more point filters and assign the set of points matching the point filter to a classification. This PCT is useful for conducting simple reclassifications of point data in a LIDAR project. Reclassifying points from the old Model Keypoint class 8 to the…

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Missing Images: XYZ from Camera Events (EXIF data)

Problem: Dropped images from Pixhawk drone flight and can’t georeference with dataflash logs. Probable Resolution: Create a new “Position File” that provides a row for each image filename, lat, lon, and elevation using our tool XYZsFromCAMEvents. Provide the “Image Folder” and the “Dataflash Log”. The default file is named “FlightLLAs.txt”. It DOES NOT create a “geotagged” folder, nor write…

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Tips for Defining Stockpile Toes

We have added quite a few tools to LP360 (Standalone)/Topolyst aimed at small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) data processing (and small area LIDAR, of course).  Here are a few tips for defining stockpile toes for volumetric computations.  Automatic Toe Extraction with Overhead: You will note that the automatic toe extraction Point Cloud Task (LP360 Advanced…

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Duplicate file ids

Problem: When adding files to the map some of the LAS files won’t load and you are presented with the following messages about “Duplicate File IDs”. Caller’s Message: Adding layer to the map failed (22705) Exception Information HRESULT: 0x80004005 Description Duplicate file ids Caller’s Message: Exception Information: HRESULT: 0x0 Unable to retrieve extended COM error…

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