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8 posts about how to, written by people who have actually been down a mine with a scanner.
Command-line recipes for converting E57 point clouds to LAS, LAZ and COPC with PDAL, plus CloudCompare, LAStools and Rust alternatives. The options that matter, and what E57 data does not survive.
November 7, 2026How to do a dilapidation report (pre-construction condition survey) with 360 photos, drones and laser scans, and keep a dated record you can compare later.
November 4, 2026Step-by-step: convert a GeoTIFF to a Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF with GDAL, rio-cogeo, or QGIS, plus compression, web-mercator tiling, BigTIFF, and how to validate the result.
June 17, 2026View drone orthomosaics and GeoTIFFs in a web browser, with no QGIS, ArcGIS, or downloads. The options for opening, exploring, and sharing orthomosaics online.
June 17, 2026Practical guide to creating Gaussian splats with Postshot, Polycam, and Luma AI, covering capture technique, processing steps, costs, and output formats.
May 18, 2026Step-by-step guide to exporting 3D Tiles from Pix4D, Metashape, and RealityCapture so drone survey outputs can be streamed and viewed in any modern browser.
September 5, 2024Full pipeline tutorial: drone flight planning, processing in RealityCapture, exporting to 3D Tiles, and sharing a browser-viewable point cloud with clients.
August 15, 2024Step-by-step guide to stitching 360° panoramas from single-lens cameras: overlap requirements, camera settings, and the full workflow from capture to share.
April 18, 2024