laser Discussion scanner.
I have been using and researching the laser scanner since 2003 since my stay in Sweden, doing my final project laser scanner. With the creation of the company GAVLE: Heritage Documentation Graphics 've seen up close as the laser scanner is a myth to some and a false promise for others, but, frankly, few see a true picture of this instrument in various fields that this instrument can be applied. Here's why this humble contribution.
could talk history and progress of the laser scanner in recent years, as have been many and have created some engineers archaic ideas about this technology as files that are too large and can not be handled well, or have no output to CAD, which is a very expensive technology ... so how are you and other assertions are completely false several today ...
Arremangémonos. A file in a scanner can be taken with weight varies, depending on the resolution and the laser mark, but more importantly they are perfectly manageable by current software. A project large, with photo texture and triangulation can be about 4GB .. ie, any hard disk you could stand, 3GB of RAM is more than what is needed to process all these data. What you can not ask all these data is to manage all the properties photorealistic and triangulation with commonly used software such as AutoCAD ... should pave the way for export. But yes, exit to CAD!
can export the entire file ... if you want, but more normal is that the user is lost in the maremagnum points and despair in trying to move ... the optimum is to separate what you want and pass it to CAD ... if you want to measure crashes, do the sections in the LS software and export to DXF CAD, if you raised, you make an orthophoto and export to CAD as an image, if you want only certain points, clean the LS software left over to export to DXF and the points you want ... and so on. It is not about killing flies with cannon fire.
Is it expensive laser scanner?
Of course it's expensive aircraft, but the service that goes profitable thousands of transport companies daily throughout the world. Something about the laser scanner, 'could you pick up in 1 hour a square of 900m2 with a total station or photogrammetry, with all the details of facades, textures and geometries of 6 millimeters? the answer is obviously No! hence the reason that the myth of expensive than the LS has more bark than bite. I work with Laser Scanner for 7 years and I can assure that work out profitable, if you know you do with it and not use the laser for everything and in any way. This point is very large and complex to explain, but the profitability of the laser is based on several points: the extension and complexity of work, architectural, archaeological requirements (or industrial, mining or other applications), the merger and optimization of results with other techniques and, finally, I would say is essential expertise and knowledge of engineering technology-operator that uses it. But I insist that, generally, and with a good approach and knowledge, the LS is profitable.
What aspects negative is the laser scanner?
seem that everything is good in this instrument, but it is not. Firstly I refuse to name the negative side there are hidden areas, because the problem is that of all existing capture techniques, what is not does not appear and that is the case with the laser, photogrammetry and with the tape, if you will excuse the irony.
What I see as negative is that the laser scanner itself is nothing. Accurate total station for georeferencing models and to perform the relevant quality control: it scans the union of accumulating errors and these should be checked and corrected, if necessary, using a non-prism Total Station (speaking of architectural heritage) .
Another negative aspect is that the achievement texture is still at an early stage ... if we are lucky and the day is cloudy, the light conditions are homogeneous and can be used built-in camera LS, if known ... that it is normal to have it. But if not, projecting shadows on the facades are made of lifting a spectacle of lights and shadows and impossible to present ... so the solution is two possibilities: one is shooting another day with favorable light conditions, with a camera and ortoproyectarla semimétrica metric or on the point cloud ... this tedious work and not always easy. And the second solution is photogrammetry using control points the same LS georeferenced. In either case ... more work, if you want to present is a good project.
Why so much information?
I have met many people asking what it requires as much information as the LS capture. Well, it may be that most jobs do not require so much information, so this statement is true, but the example I can think of moving, I repudiated the camera phones, Internet connections of these, etc ... things that I never will use and I was needed. I resisted the consumerist vortex until I had no choice and I gave it away to start a new contract ... I still use it yet, but I'll bring everyone. This example is a collation of information overload ... if not need, do not use it, if you need it, use it, not much more to tell, because if the technology is profitable for a project, but give you much more than what you ask, that's not a problem, if information is no problem when using it, as in this case. But allow me to one final explanation for the use and optimization of this information in the following point:
Orthophotography obtained from a survey with a laser scanner.
First I did not disown the other techniques, in fact, whenever I use photogrammetry and topography to merge with the LS. But call the attention of architects and developers work to restore the architectural and archaeological heritage to know use the full potential of the laser at different phases of the work:
1 º do a survey before the monument is a practice still booming, but not by all, much less. And that's because they are unaware that you can save this action. You can save by looking at the survey areas to remodel, and plan to measure them accurately, perform calculations and material timings tighter. That would cheapen the work. And with the laser scanner ...
2 º the excess of information that we discussed in the previous point, would not make any trouble if the philosophy of the data obtained by the laser was different: I mean that this information is used throughout the restoration process, not only in the preliminary work and planning, but used to go consulting crashes, volumetric necessary consultations and 3D measurements unforeseen during the development of the work, etc. The architect may find here a very useful tool to monitor the development of the work. If the survey has been carried out with photogrammetry and total station is more than possible that no data were taken in such detail and with the foresight that all queries resolved after the architect, and with these techniques is that surveys develop from specific points and the laser scanner is a mass trapping technique.
3 º can serve and serve, to make presentations and virtual animations. something needed to sell the work for reuse in advertising or include interpretive centers, internet, etc. Also photogrammetry and 3D design software with 3D Studio Max or Blender) can do this too, but with an ability to traverse or smaller mesh and therefore less realistic.
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Finally, I have nothing else to bet on this new technology with suitable reserves and always with the knowledge necessary to make this a tool that provides a real service and complete the works of architectural and archaeological restoration. I invite you to visit my company web http://www.gavle.es/.
nothing else, I hope you support has resulted from this short article and do not hesitate to write me with any questions or queries. Pedro Ortiz
Coder. Pedro@gavle.es
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