Analysis

Make sense of data that already carries detail by pulling it apart and seeing each piece on its own.

Analysis is where you take data that already holds more information than it first shows and bring that detail to the surface. A LiDAR scan, for example, often arrives as one solid wall of points, even though every point already knows whether it is ground, vegetation, a building, or a power line. The tools in this section let you read that hidden detail and put it to use, so the scene goes from a single mass of data to something you can actually pick apart and understand. Each tool has its own page with the full walkthrough.

Point Cloud Classification works with point clouds that were captured with classification codes built in. It reads those codes straight from the data, then hands you control over how each type appears. You can keep the natural color of the cloud or switch to coloring by class, recolor any type, hide the ones you do not need, and adjust the size of the points until the picture reads clearly. The result is the same scan, but now the ground, the trees, the buildings, and the wires each stand on their own.

This is where your data stops being one undivided whole and starts being something you can read piece by piece.