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Terrain triangulation (TIN)

Generate a triangulated surface from points, breaklines, and boundaries.

Generate a terrain surface constrained by the supplied breaklines.

Regular grid (DEM/Grid)

Create or derive a regular elevation grid from the model.

Run terrain analyses and calculations on a regular elevation grid.

TIN ↔ DEM conversion

Convert between triangulation and a regular grid, updating the model.

Switch model types to suit each task.

Model editing

Insert or delete vertices and breaklines, retriangulate areas, and insert new entities.

Correct and refine the model manually in selected areas of the model.

Model cleanup

Remove triangles or vertices by side length, slope, height difference, or elevation range; delete spikes and erroneous points.

Remove artifacts from the model.

Hole filling

Interpolate areas with no model data using the surrounding information.

Get a continuous surface with no data gaps.

Model boundaries

Calculate and update the surface's inner and outer boundaries.

Precisely define the extent of valid model information.

Surface smoothing

Smooth the model for a more continuous representation of the terrain.

Improve surface appearance and continuity while preserving the terrain's shape.

Voronoi diagram

Generate the Voronoi diagram for the point set.

Divide the terrain into regions assigned to the nearest survey point.

Breakline extraction

Detect and extract terrain breaklines from the model.

Automatically obtain the terrain's characteristic lines.

Roofs and flat areas

Place roofs and reinterpolate flat areas of the model.

Integrate roofs and reinterpolate flat areas in the terrain model.

Model quality control

Check elevations, hydrography, and connections, and detect erroneous points and spikes.

Check model elevations and connections and identify erroneous points before delivery.

Model contouring

Generate a contour map with a configurable contour interval.

Produce contour maps from the model.

Contouring from a point cloud

Obtain contour lines directly from a LiDAR cloud without triangulating first.

Generate contours quickly and directly from the cloud.

Contour maxima and minima

Locate notable elevations (peaks and depressions) on contour lines.

Identify the terrain's high and low points at a glance.

Hypsometric curve

Chart showing the distribution of terrain entities by elevation.

Understand how surface area is distributed across elevation bands.

Slope map

Color the terrain by inclination, using slope ranges.

Display flat and steep areas using slope colors.

Aspect map

Color the terrain by slope aspect (exposure).

Identify each slope's solar exposure.

Slope vectors

Represent the direction and percentage of the steepest slope as vectors on the terrain.

Visualize water flow direction and the steepest slope at each point.

Hypsometric tints

Color the terrain by elevation with a color ramp divided into intervals.

Read elevations at a glance with a full-color map.

Hillshade map

Generate terrain shading with overhead or oblique lighting.

Display terrain relief using simulated lighting for maps and visualizations.

Visibility map

Calculate which areas are visible and which are hidden from an observation point.

Perform viewshed and landscape impact studies.

Compare two DEMs

Calculate elevation differences between two grid models.

Detect terrain changes between two dates or scenarios.

Check elevations

Elevation quality control for the terrain model.

Validate the model's vertical accuracy against reference data.

Classification and editing by attribute

Delete, select, or change points by laser attribute.

Clean up and reclassify the cloud using each point's information.

Profile editing

Edit the cloud using vertical and horizontal profiles, selecting points above, below, left, or right of a line.

Clean up the cloud precisely by working with terrain cross sections.

Point detection

Automatically locate high, low, isolated, airborne, and wall points, or points selected by flight line, geometry, color, intensity, or infrared data in the cloud.

Find outliers that affect the model.

Search by geometric shape

Find points that fit planes, 3D straight lines, or cylinders.

Extract elements with defined shapes directly from the cloud.

Automatic point cloud reclassification

Reclassify the point cloud automatically.

Speed up classification with an automatic process.

Filter point cloud

Reduce cloud density (thinning) to make the file smaller.

Reduce the number of points and the point cloud file size.

Cloud smoothing and sorting

Smooth the point cloud and sort the points.

Averaging and overlaps between flight strips

Average points between flight lines and detect overlaps and gaps.

Make clouds from multiple flight strips consistent and detect gaps.

Assign RGB color

Apply true color to the point cloud from an image.

Display point colors sampled from an image.

Find ground

Quickly classify points belonging to the terrain.

Isolate the ground to generate the terrain model.

Plane calculation

Calculate planes and find parallel planes from points; detect building rooftops.

Detect flat surfaces and roofs within the cloud.

Generation from a cloud

Generate contours, profiles, an nDSM (normalized digital surface model), and images from the cloud.

Obtain derived products directly from the point cloud.

Cloud comparison

Compare two point clouds, including spherical comparison.

Detect changes and deformations between two captures.

Power lines

Extract power lines from the point cloud.

Automatically inventory power lines.

Merging, clipping, and splitting clouds

Merge and clip clouds, and split them by tile or height.

Organize large volumes of point cloud data into manageable pieces.

Laser file preprocessing

Horizontal alignment (plan)

Define straight lines, curves, clothoids, and roundabouts; edit, join, copy, and move alignments.

Design the road's horizontal alignment using straight lines, curves, clothoids, and roundabouts.

Vertical alignment (profile / grade)

Define and edit the grade, project the alignment to obtain the terrain profile, and redraw vertical profiles.

Design the road grade over the actual terrain profile.

Typical sections

List, define, and assign typical sections to the road.

Define the project's cross-sectional geometry and apply it to the alignment.

Superelevation

Manage superelevation tables by curve radius and assign them to the road.

Apply superelevation values from the assigned table to each alignment curve.

Alignment profiles

Generate the longitudinal profile and calculate the alignment's cross sections.

Obtain the project's profile documentation.

Calculate DTM with road

Calculate the modified terrain by applying roads to an existing DTM.

Visualize the final terrain with the construction integrated.

Road volumes

Calculate typical section layer volumes and the mass haul diagram.

Quantify earthworks for the linear infrastructure project.

Tunnels

Classify/define tunnels and obtain their inventory, lines, unwrapped views, and wrapped views.

Document and analyze tunnels from the point cloud.

Stakeout and labeling

Extract sequential points for stakeout, label alignments, reverse their direction, and generate centerlines.

Prepare the data to take the project into the field.

Volume calculation between surfaces

Calculate cut, fill, and topsoil by comparing existing and proposed conditions (using a TIN or grid).

Calculate earthwork volumes between the existing and proposed terrain surfaces.

Stockpile volume calculation

Calculate stockpile volumes from a point cloud.

Calculate material stockpile volumes from point cloud data.

Model comparison

Calculate volume differences between two surfaces.

Quantify volume changes between two conditions.

Platforms

Generate graded areas with earthwork calculations.

Design platforms and calculate their earthwork quantities.

Image orientation

Position and orient images on the model by measuring points or editing orientation.

Georeference your images.

Orthophoto calculation

Orthorectify images using the terrain model.

Turn perspective photos into metric orthophotos.

Mosaics and seamlines

Calculate and edit seamlines and assemble the orthophoto mosaic.

Combine many orthophotos into an orthophoto mosaic using editable seamlines.

Clipping, resampling, and boundaries

Clip, change pixel size, and calculate georeferenced image boundaries.

Adjust your images to the area and resolution you need.

Image filters

Apply smoothing, enhancement, edge detection, inversion, and color transformations.

Histogram, brightness, and contrast

Analyze the histogram and adjust brightness and contrast; generate pyramids (mipmaps).

Adjust image brightness and contrast and generate reduced-resolution image levels for display.

Image differences and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

Calculate image differences and the NDVI vegetation index.

Detect changes and analyze vegetation using indices.

Vectorization and segmentation

Convert raster images to vector geometry, segment raster images, and convert vector geometry to raster images.

Go from images to vector mapping.

Generate image from points

Generate a raster image from a set of points.

Create images from your point data.

Roads (MMS)

Detect ground points, asphalt, road markings, road lines, and guardrails; create feature inventories and calculate visibility.

Inventory an entire road from mobile capture data.

Railways (MMS)

Detect ground points, rails, ties, rail lines, tunnels, overhead contact lines, and platforms, and create inventories of railway features.

Inventory the railway from mobile capture data.

Trajectory centerline and MMS processing

Calculate the vehicle's trajectory centerline, create an area within a specified distance of the centerline, transform data, and populate the database relative to the centerline.

Structure the MMS project around the vehicle's trajectory.

Vegetation (MMS)

Find trees and trunks in the point cloud.

Inventory trees around the road or railway.

MMS objects

Create, edit, modify by properties, list, and generate inventory objects.

Manage the infrastructure asset inventory.

Background image and video

Synchronize the background image with the trajectory and record route videos.

Use route images to help identify features.

Road signs

Find, list, edit, and inventory signs from 360° images and the cloud; reference library and sign database.

Inventory signs from panoramic images.

Masks

Record, show, copy, and delete exclusion masks in panoramic images.

Hide unwanted areas of panoramic images.

Depth and spherical orthophoto

Calculate image depth and generate spherical orthophotos.

Add metric information to panoramic images.

Vectorization and asphalt from 360° images

Vectorize and extract asphalt from the spherical image.

Generate vector mapping from panoramic images.

Color from spherical images

Assign color to the cloud from spherical images and generate 360° images with points.

Assign point colors sampled from panoramic images.

Plane detection and editing

Calculate and edit facade and roof planes: perimeter, hole filling, merging, listing, relationships, azimuth, and normal reversal.

Extract facade and roof planes from the point cloud.

Building elements

Detect columns, walls, pipes, furniture, and stairs.

Inventory building elements from the cloud.

Reclassification by planes

Reclassify the cloud by planes and detect objects on the planes.

Organize the building cloud by its surfaces.

3D model generation

Generate the building's 3D model from the detected planes.

Obtain a three-dimensional building model generated from detected planes.

Building comparison

Compare buildings to detect differences.

Detect changes or deviations between two states.

Start scan

Perform a manual or automatic scan with a direct connection to the scanner.

Capture point clouds directly from the application.

Scanner settings

View and configure scanner capture parameters.

Control the scanner's capture parameters.

360° image capture

Capture a 360° panoramic image of the station.

Document the surroundings with panoramic images alongside the cloud.

Import

Import points, TINs, DEMs, roads, images, and projects from multiple formats.

Bring your data into MDTopX if its format is supported.

Export

Export to multiple CAD, GIS, and mesh formats.

Export results in the supported CAD, GIS, and mesh formats.

Project management

Merge and add files, manage references, activate project files by their boundaries, export boundaries, extract entities, and sort elements.

Organize large jobs with many files.

Services and backgrounds

Load WMS services, background images, textures, color surfaces, buildings, and trees.

Place your work in context with external mapping and features.

Division into sheets

Divide the work into sheets and generate the sheet index map.

Prepare map deliveries using standard sheets.

Coordinate transformation

Transform data between coordinate systems.

Convert your data to the reference system you need.

Viewpoints

Select preset viewpoints or a free 3D viewpoint; rotate and turn the model.

Choose a preset viewpoint or adjust a free 3D viewpoint.

Orthographic or perspective projection

Switch between orthographic and perspective views.

Choose the right projection for measurement or presentation.

Lighting, material, and background

Configure lighting, materials, background color, and vertical exaggeration.

Configure lighting, materials, background color, and vertical exaggeration for 3D views.

Terrain display modes

Show the model as a surface, triangles, vertices, fill, boundaries, breaklines, buildings, or trees.

View exactly the information layer you need.

Cloud coloring

Color the cloud by intensity, echo, recorded color, or classification.

Interpret the cloud using the attribute you need to highlight.

Selection views and video

Create views with selected elements, save viewpoints, and record videos.

Prepare presentations and model tours.

Measurement

Measure distances and areas, and distances between two points in 3D, in XY, and as elevation differences.

Measure distances, areas, and elevation differences on the model.

Python scripts

Automate repetitive processes by running Python scripts.

Save time by automating entire workflows.

Interactive Python console

Run Python commands interactively within the application.

Test and run Python commands in the MDTopX interactive console.