Behind the scenes of the fastest laser scanner on the market

在当今充满挑战的环境中，激光扫描仪可以加快工作流程，从而赋予专业人士的能力，以提高生产率和效率。这Leica RTC360 3D laser scanneris a compact field-to-office solution, filling the gap between theLeica BLK360 imaging laser scannerand theLeica ScanStation P-Series陆地激光扫描仪。

“At Leica Geosystems we have the ambition to build the best sensors in the world. When we designed the RTC360, we wanted to create something outstanding and unique,”said Juergen Mayer, president of Reality Capture Division at Leica Geosystems.

From surveying professionals, looking to scan quickly with high performance, to public safety authorities, aiming to use a portable and simple device with a practical post-processing software ─ the RTC360 is the solution.

Capturing up to 2 million points per second

这RTC360 3D laser scanner is developed to be fast, agile and precise. The fast and precise aspects refer to the unique capturing performance, such as 2 million points per second measurement rate and full High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) panoramic images in less than 2 minutes. Agile refers to its portability and automated targetless field pre-registration based on the special Visual Internal System (VIS) technology.

“ RTC360是作为整个系统的一部分开发的，而不是独立的扫描仪。它与现场和办公软件一起开发，具有真正独特的技术，称为“视觉内部系统”（VIS），可以在注册中自动化大多数工作流程，”梅耶说。

VIS technology was developed by Leica Geosystems experts to decrease the time spent on stitching together the individual point clouds into one complete point cloud. The system is based on five cameras built in to the RTC360 to track the environment. These cameras pick up on environmental features and use them as reference points to connect individual scans. When moving from one place to another, even between floors, the RTC360 knows the relative position between any two scans and automatically registers the different point clouds into one complete point cloud thanks to VIS.

“My first impression of the RTC360 is that the scanner is really amazing, because with the five additional cameras for the Visual Inertial System, the scanner has an additional sense to orientate itself,”said Markus Ziereis, regional sales manager at Leica Geosystems Germany.

开发紧凑的解决方案

这RTC360 laser scanner is one component of an end-to-end system. The complete 3D reality capture solution consists of:

• Leica RTC3603D激光扫描仪
• Leica Cyclone FIELD 360mobile-device app
• Leica Cyclone REGISTER 3603D laser scanning point cloud registration software

与RTC360扫描时,用户可以操作their scanner and perform on-site point cloud pre-registration, straight from any iOS or Android device through the Cyclone FIELD 360 mobile-device app. With its intuitive user interface, and immediate data visualisation, the Cyclone FIELD 360 app allows users to quality control their scans directly in the field. Once all scans are checked and registered through Cyclone FIELD 360, it is synchronised back to the RTC360 3D laser scanner, which records the data on an USB stick and after plugging it into a computer, the post-processing can start with Cyclone REGISTER 360 post-processing office software.

Cyclone REGISTER 360 is an innovation for users of any skill level and makes the most of the RTC360’s innovations to dramatically reduce the user’s office workload. Cyclone REGISTER 360 provides a point cloud preview prior to import and leverages the Double Scan option of the RTC360 to automatically filter out all possible noise usually generated in busy locations. Within Cyclone REGISTER 360, users can fine-tune their pre-registration and prepare their data for use downstream in Leica Geosystems’ TruView and CloudWorx products.

This state-of-the-art 3D reality capture solution can be employed both by experts and novice users in a wide range of applications, including:

• 建造ing construction
• Plant management
• Forensic science

“The RTC360 3D reality capture solution will be a massive benefit to customers, because it is going to speed up their workflow,”SCCS Survey UK的HDS经理Phil Marsh说。