From hardware to software - inside Geosystems’ reality capture solutions

Author:米歇尔·伯恩（Michelle Byrne）

Geosystems’ promise is to drive efficiency and increase productivity in the field as well as the office through improvements across the entire workflow including both hardware and software solutions.

Gregory Walsh, director of R&D for terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) software at Leica Geosystems and Faheem Khan, vice president of business development at Leica Geosystems, shared insights on the current and future state of Geosystems’ reality capture solutions, from hardware to software, at the High Definition Surveying (HDS) User Conference in Melbourne, Australia.

Revolutionising productivity with sophisticated software

The commitment to offer the highest productivity through automation and highest precision motivated the TLS software and R&D teams to combine existing Geosystems’ technologies. This quest to take productivity to the next level has materialised with theLeica RTC3603D reality capture solution.

“What inspires us is to improve customer productivity. We recognise that almost all of our customers need to deliver a fully-registered data set before they can get downstream to wherever they are going to be extracting value out of it. Making solutions as productive as possible was the principle driver for what we wanted to achieve with the development of the RTC360,”沃尔什说。

沃尔什（Walsh）团队开发的未来创新之一是高动力范围（HDR）激光雷达，具有广泛的动态范围，可见黑暗和明亮的物体。HDR LIDAR类似于摄影HDR的更熟悉的概念，在该概念中，相机既要长时间又短的曝光照片，并将其准确地结合在一起，可以测量接收到的光线。

Boosting productivity in the office with innovative laser scanning

The productivity of the hardware, combined with software solutions, targets increasing the efficiency both in field and in the office by three to five times. The boost in productivity is achieved by co-designing the software improvements together with the hardware improvements. In particular, the new hardware, including the BLK360 and the RTC360, collects extra information in the field to automate office tasks. The software developments are co-designed with the hardware improvements in order to:

•Increase the speed of importing data
•Automate registration to the fullest
•Simplify the digesting of information into different CAD systems powered by LeicaJetStreamtechnology

“There are several features in the new, full system release addressing every piece of the workflow. Users will find the new file format [LGS the new Leica Geosystems HDS Universal Digital Reality file] very handy, portable and efficient. It packs every single piece of information in a single file and it is available in all of our downstream products, such asTruViewand JetStream,”said Khan.

Likewise, new improvements in the registration workflow have been added. Users can pre-register the captured data with Cyclone FIELD 360 in the field and then process it in the office withCyclone REGISTER 360. The 3D laser scanning point cloud registration software leverages all of the sensors within the RTC360 to automatically place project data on real-world coordinates and completes registration with little to no manual assistance from the user.

BLK360用户s can take advantage of Leica Geosystems’ software solutions and third-party applications, such as ReCap PRO, to acquire reality capture data and deliver projects for the AEC market.

“The advantage of the ReCap file produced by the BLK360 is that it can be directly consumed byCloudWorxwithout conversion and easily be transferred into AutoCAD to carry out clash detection, inspection or produce deliverables.

“For conducting reverse engineering of an industrial plant, doing forensic analysis and more, we have software solutions to match those requirements. We are happy that a growing number of customers take advantage of the software offerings that Leica Geosystems deploys,”said Khan.

Through close collaboration, Leica Geosystems has delivered a watershed solution to the laser scanning industry that brings unparalleled efficiency to the digital reality workflow. This multi-year effort continues to seamlessly integrate Leica Geosystems’ hardware and software offerings. Exciting releases planned for 2019 will ensure customers can fully leverage their sensors in the field and in the office.