Today's drone technology makes it easy to collect existing site conditions as a point cloud. Once captured, point clouds provide a wealth of analytic opportunities. In this week’s installment, we'll use Civil 3D to analyze a point cloud and extract the volume of a large stockpile.
If your projects require you to calculate stockpile volumes, try experimenting with a point cloud workflow. Capturing stockpiles as point clouds can be the fastest and safest means of collecting this data, while also providing more detail than what is obtainable using more traditional collection methods.
If you are interested, I’ve created a quick video below to help you get started…
-Jeff