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Transforming Rasters
& Point Clouds
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Agenda
• Point Clouds and Rasters in FME • New in FME 2016.1
• Do more with third-party tool
integrations
• LAStools
• ImageMagick
• Example point cloud to raster
transformation
• Advanced transformations for
big data problems • Viewshed Analysis with point
clouds
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New in FME 2016.1
• Autodesk ReCap
• Cesium 3D Point Clouds
• Sentinel 1 and 2
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Third-Party
Tool
Integrations
Make even more
with LAStools and
ImageMagick.
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Custom Transformers
LAStools wrappers
• LAStools.lasground
• LAStools.lasheight
• LAStools.lasnoise
• LAStools.lasclassify
• LAStools.lasgrid
• LAStools.laspublish
ImageMagick wrappers
• SVGReader
• AnimatedGIFWriter
Article & downloads: fme.ly/3rdparty
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LAStools wrappers
rapidlasso.com
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ImageMagick wrapper: AnimatedGIFWriter
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Demo: Creating a Fancy Animated GIF
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Example point
cloud to raster
transformation
Create a Digital Terrain
Model (DTM) and Digital
Surface Model (DSM)
from a point cloud.
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Merge component values from
one point cloud to another.
Sort a point cloud by the
values of components.
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Advanced
Transformations Using point cloud power
for Viewshed Analysis.
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Viewshed Analysis
● Goal: Identify which land parcels have a view of the water
● Expressing a big data problem as a point cloud made the
impossible possible
● Millions of parcels and lines of sight = 17 billion points
○ Point clouds can handle this volume!
● Test if the DEM intersects with the line-of-sight points
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Viewshed Analysis
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● FME is extremely efficient when
handling point clouds and rasters.
● Many powerful transformers and
custom transformers are available.
● Try using point clouds for your big
data problems.
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Thank you!
Questions?