3D View

A laser survey is made up from a number of individual laser scans that observe the surveyed facility from a number of different locations. These individual locations are coalesced together and rendered into a single point cloud in a known coordinate system, allowing the site to be visualized from any eye position.

The example displays a laser model in the 3D view with AID graphics (red) representing each individual laser survey position.

The AVEVA LFM Server product will accept point cloud data from multiple different types of capture system ranging from sonar, bathymetric, airborne, handheld and mobile scanners. Data may have been captured using a terrestrial scanner but delivered to the user in an unstructured form. Unstructured data cannot generate a BubbleView™ (refer to BubbleView™ for further information) or a HyperBubble™ (refer to HyperBubble™ for further information) rendering of the point cloud. The unstructured data can only be viewed as a Point Representation (refer to Point Representation for further information).

When working with mobile survey data where one or more laser scanners are attached to a car and it is driven along a highway capturing data, not only will the extents of the survey be measured in kilometres, the point density will not be as high as when using terrestrial scanning techniques.

Solid Point Cloud (refer to Solid Point Cloud for further information) rendering is ideally suited for use when walking or flying through the survey when a general impression of the point cloud is required quickly.