NOTE:
You can also create projects in SCENE , and import scanned images into the project.
Managing Occlusions
An occlusion is an area on the object's surface that is recorded by one measurement device (either the laser
scanner or the camera), but missed by the other. This condition is also known as "parallax", where the
camera fails to capture an area that is recorded by the laser scanner due to the offset from the laser beam
center to the Ricoh Theta Z1 lens center. The area is included in the point cloud but not captured in the
PanoCam picture, and as a result not colorized in the point cloud.
Occlusions occur due to parallax issues, similar to how your left and right eyes see close-up objects
differently. Occlusions occur more often for close-up objects, and they occur less frequently with objects
that are further away.
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Parallax area
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Laser Scanner camera
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Panoramic camera (occlusions highlighted in red)
Following is an occlusion where the surface is captured by the laser scanner, but missed by the camera.
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