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TerraStereo - Sophisticated Visualization of Very Large Point Clouds

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TerraStereo is a stand-along application for visualizing very large point clouds. It uses high-performance graphics boards for rendering huge amounts of points fastly and in high quality. The software enables you to:

• visualize up to 50 billion points that are organized in a TerraScan project
• perform visual analysis and quality check in both, small and large scale displays
• navigate through the point cloud freely or based on TerraScan trajectory files
• create animations
• view laser data in stereo mode and create stereo screencaptures
• easily change between different display channels and point rendering modes
  • elevation, intensity and class coloring
  • color by RGB values
  • shaded surface display
  • point density coloring
  • TerraZ rendering method for masking foreground objects
  • different quality levels for point rendering
• combine different visualization channels in order to improve the perceptibility of objects in the point cloud
• switch point classes on/off
• apply elevation exaggeration to the point cloud for specific analysis tasks
• measure distances within the point cloud
• digitize line vector elements and export them to TerraSurvey

Hardware requirements and recommendations

There are some specific hardware requirements and recommendations in order to run TerraStereo in a proper way:

• minimum of 4 real processor cores, more than 4 are recommended
• > 16 GB of RAM
• > 8 GB of GPU memory recommended
• display device that supports quad-buffered stereo display (for stereo viewing)
  • stereo display or projector using DisplayPort or Dual-DVI connection (not HDMI)
  • (optionally) active or passive stereo glasses

Display hardware recommendations

GPU board used with TerraStereo must be NVIDIA® CUDA™ Compute Capability 5.2 or higher. In two GPU systems the primary (OpenGL) GPU can be older, if the other designated CUDA™ board meets the specs.

• Low-cost solution (low performance, mono display only):
  one high-end GeForce® board + standard monitor
• Basic solution (good performance):
  one high-end GeForce® board for CUDA™ and one basic-level Quadro® board for stereo display + NVIDIA® 3dVision compatible stereo system
• Recommended solution (best stereo quality and performance):
  PluraView 4k StereoDisplay + TerraStereo workstation (http://www.3d-pluraview.com/en/)

Workstation GPU	Cores	Memory
Quadro® P6000	3840	24 GB
Quadro® P5000	2560	16 GB
Laptop GPU	Cores	Memory
Quadro® P5000	2048	16 GB
Quadro® P4000	1792	8 GB

Please contact Terrasolid for more information or for a quote.

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