From hardware to software - inside Geosystems’ reality capture solutions

作者：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.

用复杂的软件彻底改变生产力

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现bob综合app赌博实捕获解决方案。

“启发我们的是提高客户生产力。我们认识到，几乎所有客户都需要提供全面注册的数据集，然后才能将其下游到达任何要从中提取价值的地方。使解决方案尽可能富有成效，是我们想要通过RTC360开发而实现的主要驱动力。”said Walsh.

One of the future innovations being developed by Walsh’s teams is a High-Dynamic Range (HDR) LiDAR with a wide dynamic range where both dark and bright objects are visible. HDR LiDAR is similar to the more familiar concept of photographic HDR in which a camera takes both long and short exposure photographs and combining them accurately measures the received light.

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
•自动注册到充分的注册
•Simplify the digesting of information into different CAD systems powered by Leica喷气流技术

“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,”可汗说。

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 users 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.

“为了进行工业工厂的逆向工程，进行法医分析等等，我们提供了符合这些要求的软件解决方案。我们很高兴越来越多的客户利用Leica GeoSystems部署的软件产品，”可汗说。

通过密切的合作，Leica Geosystems为激光扫描行业提供了分水岭解决方案，该解决方案为数字现实工作流带来了无与伦比的效率。这项多年的努力继续无缝整合Leica Geosystems的硬件和软件产品。计划在2019年计划的令人兴奋的版本将确保客户能够在现场和办公室中充分利用其传感器。