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Point Cloud Surface not connected

  • March 6, 2024
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n.d
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Hi everyone,

 

I have some DEMs. I combined them (PointCloudCombiner) and have created surfaces on them (PointCloudSurfaceBuilder) and exported them as LandXML. 

The problem is with the borders of the DEMs. They are not connected. How can I solve it?

Thanks!

 

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nielsgerrits
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I’m not sure if I understand correctly. Do the original DEM’s overlap? Did you loose data? Or you have no coverage in this area to start with?


n.d
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Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

They do not overlap and I have not missed any data. Only after Combination and creating the surface, it is like that.


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So you want to fill the gap with interpolated values? I am no expert on this but have done something similair with elevationrasters. What I did roughly was:

  • Identify the locations of the gaps.
    • This depends on your data, but tools I can think of are HullAccumulators (when using pointclouds, coerce the pointcloud to single multipoint first) and Clippers to get an area where the gap need to be filled.
  • Use a DEMGenerator to interpolate the data.
  • Clipper to use the result and the gap area to keep only the interpolated points.
  • And then feed your original data and the interpolated points in the PointCloudSurfaceBuilder.