Hello,
Does anyone have a workflow recommendation for combining photographs with point cloud data? I'm trying to make a reconstruction of a room using photos to capture the details and the point cloud will help with the plain white walls. I am using a basic DSLR camera and a FARO Focus scanner. Does everything need to be geo-referenced for me to be able to combine the data? If so, is there a link where I can learn how to do that? Right now, after I do the aerotriangulation on the photos and then import the scans as .e57 files, the program no longer gives me the option to create a reconstruction or to run another aerotriangulation using the scans as a reference.
The point cloud and the photos both need to be in the same coordinate system and be 'within a couple of meters of each other'. Then the program can snap them together.. You would have to have located targets that get scanned as well as photographed. The scans need to be georeferenced in your scan registration software. The photos get survey control put on in ContextCapture.
Also point cloud shouldn't be much larger area than covered by photos otherwise it also can fail as lot of points are considered too far from photo tie sparse point cloud.