Part 1: What Happens Before We Arrive on Site?
When people think about laser scanning, they usually picture the scanner itself sitting on a tripod capturing millions of measurements. But scanning is only one element of the project Long before anyone steps onto site a significant amount of planning takes place to ensure the survey is carried out safely, efficiently and delivers exactly the […]
Part 4: How Laser Scanning Is Used in Real Projects
So far in this series we’ve looked at what 3D laser scanning is, what a point cloud is, and how multiple scans are brought together through registration. At this point, you might be thinking: “Okay, I get how it works… but what is it actually used for?” That’s where things start to get interesting. Because […]
Part 3: What Is Scan Registration?
By this point in the series you now know what 3D laser scanning is and you also know that the result of a scan is something called a point cloud. But there’s one important detail we haven’t talked about yet. In the real world you almost never capture an entire site from just one position. […]