Carlson Point Cloud Software

Description

Carlson Point Cloud is a modular program that provides this powerful ability to go from field scan to finished plat, all with seamless integration to Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil and Carlson Mining. Carlson Point Cloud delivers a whole new level of powerful automation for large data sets. It gives laser scanner users the ability to process millions of data points with Carlson Software ease-of-use.

Register your scan to local coordinates, filter or decimate the points, overlay raster images in 3D, snap to edges and code the descriptions for automated field-to finish processing of linework and symbols and create contours, profiles, sections, and breaklines. You will be able to read scan data from many instruments, view and process up to 1 billion points, and then perform the Field-to-Finish from the scanned data! This Carlson Software office products allows users to export surface models, points, contours, breaklines, grid and profiles to CAD.

All Carlson Software purchases will be delivered by email with your new serial number and download instructions within two business days.

Features

DATA EXTRACTION

• 3D extraction of poles, trees, and hydrants
• Extract data from clouds or meshes — TINs, Contours, Profiles, Sections and
• Breaklines — and draw them in CAD design

IMPORT / EXPORT

• Import/export of grids
• Import/export point clouds containing up to 1 billion points
• Import more cloud formats, including LAS, Leica, Faro (requires installation of conversion software), E57, DEM, GeoTiff, and more
• Export to ASCII, LAS, or PDF (new in 2016)

MULTIPLE SCAN CONSOLIDATION

• Register multiple scans into one cloud
• Merge clouds (new in 2015)

ANOMALY REDUCTION

• Reduce anomalies with Clean Cloud and reduce density with Resample Cloud

DATA IMPROVEMENT TOOLS

• Continue data improvement with Smooth Mesh and Simplify Mesh (this
  reduces the size of the model by removing least significant data points

FIELD-TO-FINISH

• Use the full power of Carlson Field-to-Finish with Point Cloud data. You can use the same FLD files you use with GPS or conventional total stations with Symbols, Line Work and Labels all drawn in CAD

VIEWING CLOUD DATA

• Color Adjustment (new in 2015)
• View multiple clouds at once
• Color by Elevation or Intensity
• Adjust point size and cloud detail
• View as cross sections (new in 2017)

DRAW LINEWORK

• Multiple snap modes to extract edges and slopes

SURFACE DATA COMMANDS

• Load Surfaces — Import scan data from various sources
• View Surface — 3D viewer for point cloud data

SCAN UTILITIES

• Resample and filter scan data

BREAKLINES

• Automatic 3D breakline creation based on surface zones

GENERATE PROFILES & SECTIONS

• Trace an alignment across the site and generate profiles or sections