Transforming Rasters

& Point Clouds

Agenda

• Point Clouds and Rasters in FME• New in FME 2016.1

• Do more with third-party tool integrations• LAStools• ImageMagick

• Example point cloud to raster transformation

• Advanced transformations for big data problems• Viewshed Analysis with point

clouds

Read/write 75+ raster and point cloud formats

75+ raster and point cloud

transformers

View and inspect

New in FME 2016.1• Autodesk ReCap• Cesium 3D Point

Clouds• Sentinel 1 and 2

Raster opacity setting in FME Data Inspector

Third-Party Tool

IntegrationsMake even morewith LAStools and ImageMagick.

Custom TransformersLAStools wrappers• LAStools.lasground• LAStools.lasheight• LAStools.lasnoise• LAStools.lasclassify• LAStools.lasgrid• LAStools.laspublish

ImageMagick wrappers• SVGReader• AnimatedGIFWriter

Article & downloads: fme.ly/3rdparty

LAStools wrappers

rapidlasso.com

LAStools wrappers: LASpublish

http://fme.ly/surrey

Publish this excellent

point cloud

dataset to Potree

ImageMagick wrapper: AnimatedGIFWriter

Demo: Creating a Fancy Animated GIF

Don’t be scared. This is the important

transformer here.

Example point cloud to raster transformation

Create a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and Digital Surface Model (DSM) from a point cloud.

Merge component values from one point cloud to another.

Sort a point cloud by the values of components.

AdvancedTransformations

Using point cloud power for Viewshed Analysis.

Viewshed Analysis● Goal: Identify which land parcels have a view of the water● Expressing a big data problem as a point cloud made the

impossible possible● Millions of parcels and lines of sight = 17 billion points

○ Point clouds can handle this volume!● Test if the DEM intersects with the line-of-sight points

Viewshed Analysis

● FME is extremely efficient when handling point clouds and rasters.

● Many powerful transformers and custom transformers are available.

● Try using point clouds for your big data problems.

Thank you!Questions?