REALITY CAPTURE KNOWLEDGE · REALITY CAPTURE WORKFLOW
Only to a certain point.
Registration problems and unwanted data can often be corrected or improved during processing. Point clouds can also be cleaned, filtered and optimised for their intended use.
But there is an important limit.
If a critical part of the surveyed environment was not captured in the field, that measurement does not exist in the dataset. Processing cannot recreate reliable spatial information that was never recorded.
This is why field acquisition and processing should not be treated as completely separate stages. Decisions made during capture directly influence what can be achieved later.
Processing can improve captured data. It cannot replace data that was never captured.
SEE IT IN PRACTICE
During mobile scanning of complex cemetery environments, trajectory planning and sufficient overlap were important because vegetation, monuments and narrow spaces created significant occlusion.
ABOUT THIS KNOWLEDGE SERIES
Reality Capture Knowledge is where I share short, practical answers to questions that come up across reality capture, point cloud processing and geospatial workflows.
The answers are based on more than 15 years of hands-on experience working with spatial data, field acquisition and point cloud processing.
Roland Kriston
Independent Reality Capture & Geospatial Specialist