In the last quarter of 2016, we introduced (under our AirGon brand) the Bring Your Own Drone (BYOD) Mapping Kit. This kit contains all the software one needs to turn a low-cost drone such as a Phantom 4 Pro or an Inspire 2 with x4s camera into a serious mapping platform. Our presales technical team…
LP360 includes tools to automatically extract a rail alignment (centerline) feature as a polyline as well as classify “top of rail” from LAS files derived from Laser Intensity Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) points. This feature is implemented as a semi-automated Point Cloud Task (PCT) and is available in the Advanced version of both LP360 for…
We have lot of LP360 customers with a variety of disparate feature collection and editing needs. To begin to address these needs, we introduced a completely new set of Feature Edit tools in the 2016/2017 releases of LP360 (standalone). Last month I introduced the new Feature Analyst tool that will be available in LP360 2017.1…
Feature Analyst is an exciting new tool that will appear in LP360/Topolyst 2016.2. To motivate this discussion, I will provide a synopsis of a few use cases for Feature Analyst here. A detailed look at these cases is presented at the end of this article. Examples of tests you will be able to perform with…
LP360 includes a Point Cloud Task (PCT) that will automatically digitize the toe of a clean stockpile and can allow for the classification of overhead structures such as conveyors. This tool saves considerable time when computing stockpile volumetrics. A “clean” stockpile is one with a clear demarcation of the boundary from a 3D perspective that…
WMS (Web Map Service) is an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standard which is widely supported: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms WMS layers can be added into LP360 for ArcGIS, LP360, Mission Planner, LIDAR Server and Reckon. LP360 for ArcGIS, LP360 and Mission Planner all display WMS data as a layer. These different programs provide users the ability to display…
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…
Geiger-mode lidar data is getting a lot of press lately as the “next big thing” in airborne data collection. Unlike traditional lidar sensors, which we will call “linear-mode lidar” for convenience, Geiger-mode sensors use a different detection method in the receiver – the “Geiger-Mode” part – to enable much higher data collection altitudes and higher…
Quality control and assurance checks should be applicable for various acquisition scenarios so as to not limit the methods that a data provider may use to obtain usable data. In that regard, some providers use collection methods that require multiple overlapping swaths in order to adhere to the project requirements. In other cases, simple side…
Introduced in LP360 v2015.1, Live View is a new source point filter for defining how points are visualized in real-time within the program and also used by various filters and Point Cloud Tasks throughout the program. The purpose of this article is to provide users with a more in-depth look into Live View and how…
