Topcon Europe Positioning selects Pointools

19 March 2010, 9:01pm

Capelle a/d IJssel, The Netherlands, March 19 2010, Topcon Europe Positioning B.V. will begin offering Pointools products throughout Europe to complement and showcase the “outstanding data quality produced by our GLS laser scanners,” said, Andrew Evans, Topcon Europe product specialist.

Visualization and distribution of your point cloud data is the icing on the cake. “Pointools has invested a great deal of development time in this area,”Evans said, “and has the market-leading manufacturer-independent point cloud visualization and presentation software.

Pointools Edit offers a comprehensive data visualization and cloud editing software featuring a variety of effects, including: lighting effects, data coloring and re-coloring options, data mark-up and tagging, effective data cleaning tools and fly-through creation. It also includes a fast rendering solution so clients can deliver “great looking clouds in a reactive graphical environment,” said Evans.

“From Topcon’s perspective,” he said, the Pointools software showcases the high quality data of the GLS. From our customer’s perspective the fact that Pointools is an independent developer means that the viewer software goes a long way in ensuring data interoperability for the end-user. Pointools makes the delivery and presentation of point cloud information for a project a simple process”

About Pointools

Based in London, U.K., Pointools Ltd. is an independent technology company developing high-performance point cloud software used for laser scans of everything from small objects to large aerial LiDAR surveys. When Faraz Ravi and Tony Rogers founded the company in 2004, both were convinced that the market was underserved and that the need for their technology would only grow. Pointools is now home to some of the top point cloud engineering expertise in the industry. For additional information on Pointools, its Vortex API engine, and the active Pointools community, visit the link below.

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