Point Cloud Change Detection

This page describes how to use the extension “Point Cloud Change Detection”

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The “Point Cloud Change Detection” extension makes it possible to compare 2 point clouds.

Concepts

The change between two point clouds can be analyzed by dividing the point cloud in voxels and counting the number of added and removed points within every voxel.

Point cloud change detection project files are stored in the same location as the source point cloud.

Source

Use the generic workflow for Point Cloud Based Extensions to define the source file.

The method for the range of interest is 'Area'.

Compare Point Cloud

Add the active point cloud dataset from the dataset list that will be compared with the source point cloud dataset.

Parameters

Generic concepts, see Preferences for Detectors

Results

Voxel Result

The change_voxels vector file includes all the voxels that have added or removed points in the change analysis. Every voxel has the attributes:

FD_PointCount1: Number of points in voxel in source point cloud
FD_PointCount2: Number of points in voxel in compared point cloud
FD_PointCloudDelta: The difference in points between the source and compared point cloud
FD_PointCloudDeltaAbsolute: The absolute difference in points between the source and compared pointcloud

Depending on the chosen output parameters, the following results are available:

Cluster Results

This change_voxel_clusters vector file clusters the voxels that are within the clustering distance. Every cluster has the attributes:

Cluster size: Number of voxels in cluster
FD_AvgPointCount1: Number of points in cluster in source point cloud
FD_AvgPointCount2: Number of points in cluster in compared point cloud
FD_AvgPointCloudDelta: The difference in points between the source and compared point cloud in the cluster
FD_AvgPointCloudDeltaAbsolute: The absolute difference in points between the source and compared pointcloud in the cluster

Create Added OPC and Removed OPC

The results are two opc and ops files:

The added points in the compared pointcloud
The removed points in the compared pointcloud