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WORKING WITH
OPEN DATA
Basic level webinar
Antti Järvenpää Wednesday 17/3/2021
2021 Virtual Training Event

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 Agenda

• Setting up project Note

• Obtaining data (points, images, vectors) The presentation will
• Improving point cloud usability include demonstation of
several small tasks, and
• Extracting color to points from images the target group is
• Filling holes in point cloud beginners/basic level
users.
• Classifying points by grouping
The workflow to be
• Producing content presented does not aim to
• Feature digitization any specific result but
shows some common
• Rendering views tasks useful in general
• Extracting sample of points inside area of interest processing.
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 ABOUT
Terrasolid
⚫ Founded in 1989, privately held
⚫ Based in Finland
⚫ 30 years of software development
⚫ 20 years of point cloud software development
⚫ Revenue 2019 14,8 M€
⚫ Over 4500 TerraScan licenses sold to more than 2700
customers
⚫ Global presence - customers in over 90 countries
⚫ Global market leader in airborne and mobile laser point cloud
processing with an estimated 85% market share
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CUSTOME R LOCAT I ONS 2021 R E V E NUE BY R EGI ON 2020

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DATA S OUR CE S APPLI CAT I ON FI E LDS SOFT WAR E TOOLS

Airborne 3D City models Calibration and

Mobile Building vectorization adjustment
UAV Orthophotos /Wall textures Point cloud
classification
Handheld Integration of DTM, vector models,
Image data
Backpack point clouds and imagery
processing
LiDAR Tree mapping
Vector data
Mapping and Observation production
Photogrammetric Roads, Railways, Power lines Data analysis
point clouds Open mines, Forests Visualization
Topographic mapping
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 Project set-up

Obtain data
• Finnish National Land Survey laser data
samples
• L4144A1.zip 520,2MB
• Finnish National Land Survey Ortho
& Topographic vectors
• Ortho L4144A JPEG2000 102MB
• Vectors ESRI Shapefile 4,5MB
• OpenStreetMap vectors
• Bounding Box:
• 2MB OSM-file
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 Project set-up

• Create CAD design file

• Define point class file
• Define project with TerraScan
• Read points into project
• Software has several optional ways to set
up blocks depending on data format
• Blocks can be defined using files, as data is
pre-processed
• Convert point storage format for faster
processing

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 Improving point cloud usability

Extracting color from images

• Color improves visual readability of the
data
• However, using ortho images has
weaknesses, e.g.
• Vertical surfaces, like walls are not
visible
• LiDAR might capture points below
canopies, those are not visible to
ortho
• Date of image and point capture may
not match
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Filling holes with synthetic points

• Fill empty areas with "Add synthetic
point" -tool
• Data collection with LiDAR may leave
some empty areas to the data
(e.g., water bodies and under bridges). If
point cloud is used for visualization,
it might be necessary to fill these holes
in the material
• Points can be placed by hand or using
vector elements
• Point elevations can be adjusted to
existing points
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Grouping point cloud

• Points itself lack topology.
Grouping is a step towards
automatic separation of real
objects
• TerraScan implements several
grouping algorithms and has tool
for easy classification of most
common objects by-best-match
• Grouping may (depending on
the method) require additional
parameters (distance to ground,
normal vectors etc.)
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 Producing content

Digitizing elements
• Use "Mouse point adjustment" to snap
the cursor to point cloud when drawing

Draping elements
• Adjust vector elements to correct
elevation with the help of point
cloud/elevation model

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 Producing content

Render views with TerraPhoto

• Tools help to deliver controlled results
• Rendering may include both points and
CAD-elements
• Software can write geolocation directly to
produced image files to help sharing
• Geolocated images could e.g., be added
on a map easily

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 Wrap-up

What did we learn?

• Project workflow structure typical for public data
• Common processing steps in practice
• Glimpse of some simple end results
What's next?
• Other webinars of the event
• Material on our website (manuals, videos, future
trainings, FAQ)
• Material on our Youtube-channel (Demonstrations
and tutorials)
Questions?
• Ask now! Virtual

• Email me: [email protected] Training

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