Data Preparation Menu

The Data Preparation menu consists of two sets of tools. The first focus on Survey Preparation of topographic surveys:

This includes:

• Create Point Feature Class Creates a shapefile from a point cloud file (e.g. *.pts, *.xyz, etc.)
• Create Survey Extent Polygon Creates a bounding polygon around a survey point feature class
• Create DEM and/or TIN Creates a TIN and derives a DEM from that TIN

The second set of tools simply allow a user to run ToPCAT to process large point clouds within a GIS environment and visualize the outputs in GIS.

This includes:

• ToPCAT Preparation Ensures that your input point cloud file is in a format that ToPCAT can read
• ToPCAT Point Cloud Decimation Runs ToPCAT on a point cloud

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