Volume Measurement Using LumiDB
One of the most common feature requests we get is volumetric measurement. When you have 3D point clouds, it’s quite important to be able to measure, say, the volume of a stockpile or an excavated pit. This feature is now coming to LumiDB, and it’s really easy: you just draw a polygon around the pile or pit of interest, and LumiDB will show its volume.
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One of the most common feature requests we get is volumetric measurement. When you have 3D point clouds, it’s quite important to be able to measure, say, the volume of a stockpile or an excavated pit. So of course I’m happy to say that you can now do this directly in LumiDB, and it’s really easy too.
Here’s how it works:
You simply draw a polygon around the pile or pit of interest, and LumiDB will show its volume. For the algorithm nerds reading this, LumiDB calculates the volume by reconstructing two surfaces: the top (or bottom) surface derived from the 3D point cloud and a base surface defined by the polygon. It then integrates the height differential between these two surfaces across the entire area to compute the volume: positive for piles and negative for holes. For advanced users, the API can provide more fine-grained control over the reconstruction resolution, percentiles, fill/cut, min/max values and whatnot, but we’re keeping it simple in the Viewer, and showing only a single number per measurement to start with. As usual, we will expand and improve based on customer feedback.
The feature will be rolled out for all users before the end of February.
Do you have big piles of… stock but you don’t know how big, exactly? We can help!
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