List of free tools and libraries used in photogrammetry, laser scanning and point cloud processing

Repositories

• Github
• 3D reconstruction

• Open3D

• pye57

• Point Cloud Converter

• InlineViewer

• InlineViewer

  • Quick-look geospatial viewer for compatible terminals. Displays rasters, vectors, and CSV data directly in the terminal with no GUI and no temporary files.

• CARS

  • creates Digital Surface Models (DSM) from pairs of satellite images using MultiView Stereo methods.

• XDEMS

  • xDEM is a Python package for the analysis of elevation data, and in particular that of digital elevation models (DEMs)

• Cars-Rasterize

  • Convert a point cloud into a digital surface (or terrain) model with colors.

• Cars-Mesh

  • do 3D Surface reconstruction with texture and classification from remote sensing photogrammetric point cloud.

• Bulldozer

  • a pipeline designed to extract a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) from a Digital Surface Model (DSM).

• OpenSfM

  • Open source Structure-from-Motion pipeline

• GDAL

Demo

• Photogrammetry Resection

Pipelines

• Aligning data in RC and exporting it for PostShot Gaussian Splatting
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