RiACQUIRE covers a wide variety of tasks present in RIEGL's mobile and airborne laser scanning systems. Both, mobile and airborne systems comprise at least one laser scanner, a position and attitude measurement system, and an operator's work station. Many systems further comprise camera sub-systems, additional laser scanners, mass data storage devices, and mechanical subassemblies.
The tasks covered by RiACQUIRE are allocated to the operational data acquisition, the phases of system integration, and system verification & testing. An easy to use but powerful interface enhances communication with the supported RIEGL laser scanners. With the aim of reducing the work-load for the system operator, only the most relevant ...
RiPROFILE is the companion software for RIEGL Laser Profile Measuring Systems. Its core is identical with RiSCAN PRO.
RiPROFILE is project orientated, i.e., the entire data acquired during a measurement campaign are organized and stored in RiPROFILE's project structure. These data include scans, fine scans, digital images, GPS data, coordinates of control points and tie points, and all transformation matrices necessary to transform the data of multiple scans into a common well-defined coordinate system.
RiPROFILE is designed to optimize the acquisition workflow in the field and provides the tools for visual inspection of overall completeness of data coverage in 3D right after acquisition. In addition to data ...
RiPROCESS is designed for managing, processing, analyzing, and visualizing data acquired with airborne laser scanning systems (ALS systems) and mobile laser scanning systems (MLS systems) based on RIEGL Laser Scanners. Data export in geodetic systems is supported by the GeoSys Manager.
RiPROCESS is project-oriented and enables the user to manage all data acquired and processed within a single project. This data includes project data, scanning system information data such as mounting information and calibration data, laser raw data, e.g., the digitized echo signals from the RIEGL LMS-Q560/Q680i laser scanner, position and orientation data from the IMU/GPS, intermediate data files, search tree files for fast data ...
RiSCAN PRO is the companion software for RIEGL Terrestrial 3D Laser Scanner Systems. RiSCAN PRO is project orientated, i.e., the entire data acquired during a measurement campaign are organized and stored in RiSCAN PRO's project structure. These data include scans, fine scans, digital images, GPS data, coordinates of control points and tie points, and all transformation matrices necessary to transform the data of multiple scans into a common well-defined coordinate system.
RiSCAN PRO is designed to optimize the acquisition workflow in the field and provides the tools for visual inspection of overall completeness of data coverage in 3D right after acquisition. In addition to data acquisition it provides a variety of ...
The scanner library accomplishes the tasks of scanner parametrization and data acquisition. The whole range of RIEGL Z-series scanners can be accessed by a single uniform interface and multiple scanners may be controled from a single PC. Multithreaded architecture assures smooth data acquisition while the user program might be engaged in advanced calculations or online data display.
The library is usable for online and offline data decoding. The native or raw binary data as received from the scanner hardware is presented to the application software in its native data format, i.e. floating point numbers. The library also performs any desirable corrections to the data on the fly and presents it to the user as 3-D points in ...
Data streams of RIEGL V-Line are binary data streams in RXP format (RIEGL eXtended Packets). The data stream is optimized for data generation and data transfer, but is not designed for straightforward further data processing, e.g., for extracting the 3D points actually measured by a V-Line scanner.
RIEGL V-Line instruments provide a well-documented comprehensive command and configuration interface to set the instrument's properties and to control data acquisition. From a programmer‘s perspective RiVLib is a library that sits between application code and the operating system. Linux as well as Windows® are supported.
RiWaveLIB provides straightforward and well-documented access to the digitized echo signals recorded by selected RIEGL laser scanners during data acquisition. The digitized echo signals, also known as waveform data, are the basis for the so-called full waveform analysis which deduces ranging information and additional data from the waveforms. Additionally, the library enables access to the time stamp and measurement direction for each measurement and thus enables the user to calculate point cloud data based on their own algorithms for the full waveform analysis.
RiWaveLIB provides access to both waveform data formats used by RIEGL, the SDF file format used by RIEGL LMS-Q560 and RIEGL LMS-Q680i, and ...
The airborne laser scanners RIEGL LMS-Q560i and LMS-Q680 digitize the waveform of the echo signal for every emitted laser pulse.
RiANALYZE applies the so-called Full Waveform Analysis to the digitized echo signals provided by the laser scanner and additionally transforms the geometry data (i.e., range and scan angle) into Cartesian coordinates. Thus RiANALYZE converts the digitized echo signal data to data compatible with conventional airborne laser data processing packages for further processing.
The output is a point cloud in the well-defined Scanner's Own Coordinate System (SOCS) with additional descriptors for every point, e.g., a precise time stamp, the echo signal intensity, the echo pulse width, a classification ...
RiWORLD transforms the scan data into the coordinate system of the position and orientation data set, usually WGS84 (world geodetic system). It thus provides the acquired laser data of the object's surfaces within a geocentered coordinate system for further processing.
In order to transform the scan data with high accuracy RiWORLD requires an accurate geometrical system description as an input, i.e., the transformations from the scanner system to the IMU/GPS coordinate system, and to the vehicle body coordinate system. The output data of RiWORLD can be described as a point cloud in WGS84 with additional descriptors for each point such as amplitude of echo return, echo pulse width, pre-classification, and more. RiWORLD is ...
The scanner library accomplishes the tasks of scanner parametrization and data acquisition. The whole range of RIEGL Q-series scanners can be accessed by a single uniform interface and multiple scanners may be controled from a single PC. Multithreaded architecture assures smooth data acquisition while the user program might be engaged in advanced calculations or online data display.
The library is usable for online and offline data decoding. The native or raw binary data as received from the scanner hardware is presented to the application software in its native data format, i.e. floating point numbers. The library also performs any desirable corrections to the data on the fly and presents it to the user as 2-D points in ...
RiMINING is designed to optimize and simplify scan data processing in open-pit mining. The focus of the software design is on workflow simplification and automation. For advanced data-processing full compatibility with RiSCAN PRO is given.
RIEGL VZ-xxxx field-data import and registration without any targets speeds up field-surveying tremendously. Automatic Registration is accomplished utilizing a MSA-Plugin in combination with RIEGL VZ-xxxx buil-in sensors (GPS, compass, inclination sensors). Advanced filtering algorithms enable automatic elimination of vegetation, objects or outliers. Typical mining post-processing tasks like breakline detection and volume calculation are fully supported. Finally, the extracted ...
Combined with the one-touch workflow of the RIEGL V-Line Terrestrial Laser Scanners, RiSOLVE enables fully automatic registration and colorization of scan data. This stream-lined process is the fastest solution to acquire, register, and colorize outdoor 3D scan data. With additional tools for filtering, scene animation and measurements, RiSOLVE enables rapid turnaroud of critical information.
RiSOLVE takes the complexity out of the registration process by utilizing positioning information provided by sensors integrated into VZ-Line scanners. The combination of basic position estimation utilizing this onboard sensor data along with a new algorithm for alinging scans without ...
The RIEGL scan database RiDB is a software package for a database driven workflow to provide RIEGL pointclouds in AVEVA‘s PDMS software. In today‘s lifecycle management of processing facilities, pointclouds have taken over a valuable role for as-built information, which can be used for modeling, clash detection and various other tasks. To increase efficiency in the scan to model process, RIEGL provides a Plugin for AVEVA PDMS to directly connect the RiDB to the PDMS user interface. The pointclouds can be loaded straight into the active Viewport of PDMS, to be used with any existing 3D model of the facility, or to act as a modeling reference.
Acquiring data in terrestrial laser scanning with high measurement rates over long ranges frequently results in range ambiguities. Instruments with multiple-time-around capability (MTA), like the RIEGL VZ-4000, include information in the provided data which the post-processing software can utilize in to resolve these ambiguities. Instead of asking the user to manually specify the correct MTA zone for each data set or even subset, RiMTA 3D calculates the most probable MTA zone for each measurement automatically.
In order to correctly determine the range to the target with LIDAR instruments using time-of-flight measurements with short laser pulses requires to correctly determine the ...
Acquiring data in airborne laser scanning with high measurement rates from high altitudes frequently results in range ambiguities. Instruments with multiple-time-around capability (MTA) like the LMS-Q680i or the LMS-Q780 provide data that can be utilized to resolve these ambiguities in post-processing. Instead of manually specifying the correct MTA zone for range calculation, RiMTA will detect the correct MTA zone for each measurement automatically.
The correct resolution of ambiguous echo ranges is accomplished using RiMTA in tandem with SDCImport and RiANALYZE for an optimized workflow that maintains fast processing speed for mass data production.
RiPRECISION is a workflow completion for RiPROCESS to fully automatically adjust mobile laser scan data.
It automatically performs adjustment of the trajectory to merge overlapping mobile scan data as well as to fit the scan data to given control objects yielding a decisive enhancement of both the internal precision and of the global georeference of the entire point cloud.
