Digital Twins, GIS and 3D
A digital twin is a virtual representation of the real world, including physical objects, processes, relationships, and behaviors. This method is helping to improve business processes, reduce risk, optimise operational efficiency and enhance decision-making.
M&A also tops this solution by using drone technologies for data collection. Our drone services provide an effective data capture tool, collecting highly-accurate information, safely and efficiently.
Drones help us generate Point Clouds, a digital representation of a survey site, or asset, which is made up of thousands of points; each one being a geometric coordinate. Point clouds provide the basis for detail to be added and made into a digital twin.
3D Mesh the evolution of a point cloud, whereby small triangles are created between the points in the point cloud. Mapping software then creates a texture for each of the thousands of triangles by extracting a small portion of the original photograph of each point, and builds a 3D mesh or model.
Point Clouds
Drones help us generate Point Clouds, a digital representation of a survey site, or asset, which is made up of thousands of points; each one being a geometric coordinate. Point clouds provide the basis for detail to be added and made into a digital twin.
3D Mesh
3D Mesh the evolution of a point cloud, whereby small triangles are created between the points in the point cloud. Mapping software then creates a texture for each of the thousands of triangles by extracting a small portion of the original photograph of each point, and builds a 3D mesh or model
2D Orthomosaic
A 2D orthomosaic is a top-down map of a survey site, or asset, built by stitching hundreds or thousands of digital photos – collected by the drone – together. These real-world, geo-referenced 2D maps offer a stepping stone in the generation of 3D meshes that can be incorporated to provide an alternative perspective within a digital twin.
DTM Data
rones with LiDAR capabilities collect data to build a Digital Terrain Model (DTM). A DTM is a model of the bare earth (without any objects/buildings in it) containing elevation data of the terrain. A combination of LiDAR and Photogrammetry help us generate Digital Surface Model (DSM), which is a representation of the earth’s surface and all objects on it.
