I’m trying to understand how RC handles LIDAR import. I am starting with an e57 with ~13 million points. After import and “Align Images” it says the point count has a measly 62K points. So, where did all the LIDAR points go, assuming that’s what the point count means and why do I need to “Align Images” for LIDAR? Is the e57 simply being converted to images and a new point cloud is re-created from those images?
There are some calculations where the resulting number might seem different to what you see in your registration software, this is normal and nothing to be scared of, we’ve already inspected this. As long as you don’t get any error or feel like the pointcloud is not looking dense enough or broken everything is fine.You need to align every data you give to RC to create a sparse cloud and get the correct camera positions.