Traditional 3D models made up of surfaces have for a long time aided us in visualizing buildings and spaces, but they often come at a cost: large models require a lot of storage and processing power, ...

Researchers from Russia, China and India are going to develop the software for creating informative 3D-models of urban infrastructure objects using the laser scanner survey technologies and ...

Pepperl+Fuchs has combined laser pulse ranging and piezoelectric 2D scanning to create 3D point clouds. Adopting mems scanner technology from the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology ...

Autodesk is launching a new suite of products designed to bring point-cloud scanning data into building information models with greater precision and clarity. Chief among them is a new product called ...

Version 4.0 of the Faro family of scanning software works with the company's Laser Scanner LS machines for viewing, administrating, calibrating, filtering, and managing large, 3D point clouds.

COVID-19 has shut down non-essential construction projects in some areas and slowed progress in others. Where projects are considered essential, they face disruptive physical distancing requirements, ...

Advances in laser scanning and photogrammetry have reached the tipping point. In mid-April, at SPAR2012—one of the few trade conferences devoted to scanning technology—there was a universal buzz that ...