The raw file generated directly from the scan will have a “weight” of around 1 GB. The untreated point cloud produced from this file, which represents all the measurements recorded by the scanner, will comprise an average of 40 million points.
Following the assembly of scanner stations, a complete scanned site may consist of several billion points. As existing data processing tools cannot comfortably process information in these quantities, Urbica undertakes the sampling and decimation of points to produce files of approximately 100 MB.