photogrammetry
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Where Things Go Wrong When Combining Different Data Sources
A drone can see a rooftop that a tripod-mounted scanner never will, and a terrestrial scanner can resolve a facade at a precision no aerial platform can match. That is one reason people combine sensor sources. The other reason is just as important: LiDAR and imagery do not capture the same information about a surface…
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3D Gaussian Splatting Explained
If you have worked in aerial surveying for any length of time, you have probably come across a Gaussian splat by now. Maybe it was a flythrough of a drone survey over a construction site, or a visualization of a city block captured from a manned aircraft. Whatever the context, the first reaction tends to…