May 24, 2013
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Point Cloud Engines

These stories explore the software used to manipulate the point clouds gathered by laser scanners. Collecting the data is only half the battle. The next step is utilizing a point cloud engine that will allow you to turn the point clouds into useful models, fly-throughs and fly-bys, animation, or whatever other kind of deliverable the asset owners are looking for.



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Non-profit launched to advance open source point cloud processing


Heading up the effort will be Radu Rasu, now president and CEO of the newly created Open Perception, and formerly the head of Point Cloud Library project while at Willow Garage.

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kubit enhances the PointSense family with major upgrades to Plant and the addition of Heritage


This year at Spar 2012, kubit will introduce a new product, PointSense Heritage, and new versions for PointSense Plant and PointCloud.

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AVEVA Laser Modeller now available for purchase


Last year at this time, AVEVA turned heads with the release of its Laser Modeller software at SPAR 2011.

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Bentley combines point clouds, raster, geometry in one package


Here at SPAR International, Bentley unveiled its long-awaited Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 3), a 3D modeling software package that combines point clouds, raster imagery.

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Heating up the point cloud


If you can layer digital photos onto point clouds to colorize them, why couldn’t you layer a thermal photo on top of a point cloud and get a thermally colored point cloud?

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Aveva announces LFM User Meeting


Aveva announced this week that LFM Software will hold its User Meeting – USA 2012 at The Woodlands Waterway Marriot Hotel and Convention Centre, near Houston, Texas, on April 19, directly following SPAR International 2012.

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Another rider on the billion-point bandwagon


Last year at this time, Safe Software rolled out support for lidar data for the first time in its FME spatial data transformation product. The result? “The majority of our users were pretty happy and we mostly nailed it the first time,” said Dale Lutz, co-founder and VP of development at Safe.

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Hexagon acquires surveying, mapping software firm MicroSurvey


Hexagon, parent company of active 3D firms like Leica Geosystems, Intergraph, and Erdas, announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of MicroSurvey Software Inc.

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Point Cloud Library is stocking its virtual shelves


Did you know there’s an open source library of algorithms that perform point cloud processing functions, on which software developers can freely draw?

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Urban Robotics extends octree format to Point Cloud Library open source community


Urban Robotics Inc., a provider of 3D imaging sensors, software and algorithms, today announced it is making its highly scalable, spatially searchable and colorized 3D octree-based point cloud format available to the Point Cloud Library (PCL) community.

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