TerraScan
Terrascan Is the Main Application in the Terrasolid Software Family for Managing and Processing Lidar Point Clouds
Other products in the family are TerraMatch for Calibration and Strip Adjustment, TerraModeler for Surface Modeling and Terrain Mapping and TerraPhoto for Ortho-rectification of Images and Data Visualization. Products are available in Full, UAV and Lite versions.
Description
TerraScan is the main application in the Terrasolid Software family for managing and processing LiDAR point clouds. It offers import and project structuring tools for handling a large number of points of a laser scanning campaign as well as the corresponding trajectory information. Various classification routines enable the automatic filtering of the point cloud. The results from the automatic classification can be refined by using half-automatic and manual classification tools in combination with versatile 3D point cloud visualisation options. Most automatic classification routines can be combined in macros for batch processing. In combination with batch processing, macros can be executed outside TerraScan and MicroStation, even on other workstations over a LAN. TerraScan supports several import and export formats, including the LAS format, TerraScan Binary and TerraScan Fast Binary formats, and ASCII formats that can be defined according to the users’ needs. TerraScan, as well as other products in the family, are available in Full, UAV and Lite versions.
Specifications
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Hardware/software requirements
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Stereo Display
Y
Stand-alone
No
List software environment, e.g. Microstation
MicroStation, MicroStation PowerDraft and other Bentley Open* products
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Other
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Support
Yes
Training
Y
Typical applications
Plenty of
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Files and Registering
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Input formats
multiple
Output formats
multiple
Max. file size (#3D points)
200000000
Geo-referencing
Y
Automatic Target Detection
Y
Stitching multiple scans
Y
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Pre-processing and Automatic Filtering
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Image matching facilities
Y
Removal of individual outliers
Y
Removal of vegetation
Y
Removal of buildings
Y
Bare ground DEM generation
Y
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Manual Measurements
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3D Coordinates extraction
Y
Length and Height
Y
Angle
Y
Distance
Y
Area
Y
Volume
Y
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Interoperability
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CAD software
Rich import and export
Assigning colour from imagery to points
Y
Image overlay on TIN
Y
Integration with other data types
Yes
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General
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Year of initial introduction
1999
Year of last update
2019
Modules
TerraMatch, TerraPhoto and TerraModeler
Source of Point Clouds
Airborne Lidar, Outdoor TLS, Photogrammetric
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Analysis
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Aspect and slope
Y
Individual tree heights
Y
Time series analysis
Y
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Automatically Generated Products
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Regular Grid DEMs
Y
Cross sections
Y
TIN
Y
Contour Lines
Y
Break lines
Y
Boundary detection of solids
Y
Building footprints
Y
Building roofs
Y
3D City modelling
3D buildings with textures
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Visualisation and Editing
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Zoom, pan and rotate
Y
Fly-throughs
Y
Adding Points
Y
Removing Points
Y
Point Reduction
Y