Unlimited Detail Technology: Render Unlimited Amounts of Point Cloud Data in Real-Time

摘要

3D point cloud software has been steadily improving as LiDAR and 3D imaging technologies have rapidly evolved.  New innovative breakthroughs have now made it possible to move from traditional limiting data management techniques to instantaneous data access and visualization. Recent technological developments such as "Semi-Global Matching" and "Structure From Motion" are creating enormously dense and massive 3D point clouds.  These technologies along with hardware advancements of terrestrial, mobile, and aerial LiDAR scanners are generating huge datasets that contain an enormous amount of exploitable detail.  End users are often not able to take advantage of all the data.  A new approach offers a solution to access and visualize unlimited amounts of data density and size in real-time on a typical workstation or laptop.  By providing real-time visualization and 3D data retrieval, decision makers are afforded unbounded access to all full resolution data for rapid decision making.  This solution now provides the ability to host 3D point cloud data in a central repository for enterprise dissemination.  Fast and usable internet streaming of dense 3D data is also now available.  As this technology matures, industry specific data analysis tools will be developed providing instant data access and manipulation allowing for improved data quality and more efficient project turnaround. The grey line between real world and virtual world is rapidly becoming smaller.