Laser scanning

Laser scanning forum

• Laser Scanning Forum Discussion forum for all kinds of topics related to laser scanning, like hardware, software, 3D printing, ...

Data sets

• DURAARK project: a unique collection of datasets from the architectural domain.
• Top 6 free lidar data sources
• ETHZ sample data
• University of Osnabrueck Robotic 3D Scan Repository
• E57 sample data
• AGIV public Lidar data of Flanders, Belgium
• Repository with benchmark data from PhD thesis of Charles Thomson
• Leica BLK360 sample scans

Companies scanners

• NavVis and their M6 indoor mobile scanner
• Leica Cloudworx Leica CloudWorx CAD plugins allow users to work efficiently with large point clouds directly inside their chosen CAD system.
• Zoller-Fröhlich
• FARO
• Trimble
• Topcon
• Pentax
• Velodyne
• LeddarTech
• Quanergy

Surveying companies

• Teccon / 3d-LaserScanning.be
• Pelser-Hartman / Meet-Tekenwerk.nl
• Think3D laser scanning for industry and Stormbee drone-based laser scanning
• Studio V2
• Real Visuals digital support for construction and architecture
• Meet het land surveyors and expert agency
• Landmeter Beuckx
• globezenit 3D laser scanning, both for civil and industrial use
• N² 't kwadraat

Point cloud software

• PCL Point Cloud Library
• PDAL Point Data Abstraction Library
• community version of the Open3D library
• PoTree demo website, code Github, the thesis page and slides on FOSDEM 2015
• Meshlab open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes, but can also deal with point clouds
• CloudCompare open source 3D point cloud and mesh processing software
• OpenSLAM platform for SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) researchers which gives them the possibility to publish their algorithms

DIY

• Instructable laser scanner from scratch
• Makerscanner using a laser line and triangulation for simple 3D scanning
• Sweep cheap hobbyist lidar for $250
• Sweep kickstarter page

Multi View Stereo (MVS) and Structure from Motion (SfM)

• Open Drone Map, with main Github project page and subprojects like WebODM
• Visual SfM, provides an integrated GUI for projects like PMVS Patch-based MVS and CMVS Clustering Views for MVS (PMVS and CMVS main developer is Yasutaka Furukawa)
• Open MVS (Multi View Stereo) a library for computer-vision scientists and especially targeted to the Multi-View Stereo reconstruction community.
• Open SFM Open Structure From Motion, OpenSfM is a Structure from Motion library written in Python on top of OpenCV. The library serves as a processing pipeline for reconstructing camera poses and 3D scenes from multiple images.
• Bundler: is a structure-from-motion (SfM) system for unordered image collections (for instance, images from the Internet) written in C and C++.