ContextCapture

With ContextCapture, you can produce even the largest and most challenging 3D models of existing real-world conditions, including scales as large as entire cities, from simple photographs, in order to easily and quickly provide context for design, construction, and operations decisions for all types of infrastructure projects throughout the world.

Hybrid processing in ContextCapture enables the creation of engineering-ready reality meshes that incorporate the best of both worlds - the versatility and convenience of high-resolution photography, supplemented, where needed, by additional accuracy of point clouds from laser scanning.

Depending on your project and organizational needs, you can choose from ContextCapture or ContextCapture Centre. If you are working on an individual desktop computer and you have projects that require less than 300 gigapixels of imagery and/or 500 million points from a laser scanner, ContextCapture is the perfect fit. If your projects are larger, or you wish to utilize parallel processing and multiple desktops and servers to speed processing, or you want access to the software development kit to develop custom solutions, ContextCapture Centre is perfect for your needs.

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Access and share these rich reality models of existing conditions for use in any CAD or GIS workflow. You can easily and consistently share information, consumable and accessible, on desktop and mobile devices, in many formats.

Want to create reality meshes with less investment of time and resources?
ContextCapture helps you develop highly detailed 3D models from simple digital images.

Develop precise reality meshes, affordably, with less investment of time and resources in specialised acquisition devices and associated training. You can easily produce 3D models using up to 300 gigapixels of photos taken with an ordinary camera, resulting in fine details, sharp edges and geometric accuracy.

Produce 3D models using a full range of CAD formats, including multiresolution meshes, 3D neutral formats, digital elevation models, digital terrain models, and dense 3D point clouds to ensure your models are accessible in your modeling environment.

Utilise a wide variety of cameras, from smartphones to highly-specialised airborne or terrestrial multidirectional acquisition systems. Take advantage of any available image format and metadata to create 3D models.

Ground (DSLR) - high resolution pictures taken with a hand held camera - used to capture small areas, objects, sites or enhance unmanned / manned aerial captures by providing a higher level of detail.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) - commonly referred to as drones, this data capture platform is great for difficult to access sites, facilities, tower and bridge structures plus much more. A licensed third party is utilised for this acquisition method.

Manned Aerial (Airplane , Helicopter) - the most effective method for capturing large areas such as cities, campuses, local councils, forests, military bases and much more. A licensed third party is utilised for this acquisition method.

Photo processing - ECS utilise Bentley Systems ContextCapture for processing images into an accurate 3D mesh (in all the main industry formats), 3D point cloud (.las or .pod) or Orthophotos / DSM (such as Esri ASCII).

Geolocation and Scaling - where available we utilise ground control points and scaling to place the mesh in its real world location which also scales the model for precise measuring (distance, volume, area).

• Better Communication - navigate and measure for distance, height, area and volume via a free viewer or a standard web browser
• Construction Monitoring - measure progress during construction and validate the project schedule
• Comprehensive and Safe Inspection - leverage the model as an index to the the original high resolution photos
• Integration with GIS / Maintenance / other Enterprise Systems - the model becomes a single interface to critical business data
• Fast and Accurate Surveys - evaluate a site much faster than traditional survey methods
• Detailed Asset Management - record your assets including where and what condition it is in

Visualise and Navigate - With iTwin Capture Manage & Extract you can view and navigate your mapping data in 2D or 3D, automatically play through all supported images, and overlay any 2D and 3D vector data. iTwin Capture Manage & Extract lets you set various point cloud legend options, such as transparency and view depth. By defining point cloud viewing modes, you can see stereo, perspective, and isometric 3D views. You can also effectively overlay your point cloud data on images using colorized hovering capabilities to detect underlying surfaces, snap to the nearest point, and interpolate between points to track surfaces, ridges, and corners.

Manage, catalog, and adjust reality data - iTwin Capture Manage & Extract enables you to manage, catalog, access, adjust, and verify your reality data. Smart templates simplify and enable automation to import your reality data from any capturing system and post-processing software. You can verify and correct the captured data using ground control points, trajectory adjustment, and capabilities for postcollection calibration. The software enables you to catalog and organize your data, and then complete metadata and tagging to keep your project overview and get easy access to any data at any time.

Extract features and analyse - iTwin Capture Manage & Extract allows you to complete simple and complex measurements, extract features, and perform advanced analysis. You can make measurements using any reality data and extract them into GIS features. With iTwin Capture Manage & Extract, you can create and verify your asset inventory and perform manual, semi-, and fully automated measurements using point cloud data, combined with object-oriented workflows and domain-specific analysis, such as bridge clearance, clash detection, profiles and cross sections, and road rutting analysis. Enable artificial intelligence (AI) by annotating your reality data, launching trained AI models on imagery and point clouds, verifying auto-generated reality data annotations, and turning annotations into real 3D objects.

Teamwork using a centralised database - Operators can work independently or collaborate to become e??cient feature production teams. Team managers can set up your production unit, import reality data, prepare feature extraction work??ow, and manage workspaces for multiple operators. Extracted features can be stored in the centralized database that provides real-time adjustments for all operators. Additional metadata, attribute information, documents, and snapshots can be added or attached.