I am working on a project with 47 scanner setups (Leica C10).
It has over 137 million shots in it gathered over about 2 and 1/2 days plus another couple of days of total station and GNSS static control.
The scanner gets everything. Our investigators always drop things they need on us after we are finished. They want us out as quickly as possible so they can release the scene and the 24 hour security (often a fire fighter who drew the short straw). Sometimes they just don't know what they need because they are still interviewing witnesses. Usually it's in the scans. It's amazing how many ground shots it gets quickly threw though the brush and foliage.
I'm slowly becoming a Cyclone expert, almost. At this point it's less annoying than AutoCAD LOL.
Excellent. Please keep posting stories about your scanning experiences.
I am getting there with FARO Scene. My most recent project has 6 setups, 113 million points. I register in Scene and output to POD then into Carlson Point Cloud 2016 Beta.
I met with Dave Carlson and two of his programmers a couple weeks ago. It was an awesome meeting. Anybody who knows Carlson knows their track record of adding features to meet the needs of their clients which is why I chose to expand my Carlson License to include point cloud.
Keep on scanning!
The Faro X330 is several times faster than the C10 which means more points.
The investigators call us the Lidar guys. They don't know what they want except they want lidar.
We've been Scanning for over 15 years.
When I started in surveying in 1980 a three man crew using a steel tape, slapping 90s, and taping the offset, busted their hump to get 200 points in an 8 hour day.
I saw my first total station in the early 80's, now you could get 500 points in a day.
I first used GPS in the mid 80's, you could put it on an ATV and get 5,000 points in a day.
Our first scanner took 11,000 shots a second. We could get 3 million points in a day.
Our scanners today take 1 million shots a second. 100 billion points in a day is nothing anymore.
Moore's Law is something special when you consider what has occurred with the cost of collecting data points.
The big question is, considering the shots we used to take, all those shots in between that the scanner takes, what do we do with them. I say there's gold in that information.
