Quick Terrain Modeler

What is Quick Terrain Modeler ?

Quick Terrain Modeler is the world's leading 3D terrain and point cloud visualization software package. Designed for use with LiDAR, but flexible enough to accommodate other 3D data sources, Quick Terrain Modeler provides an easy-to-use software experience that allows users to work with much more data, render larger models, analyze data faster, and export multiple products. These benefits allow for a very powerful but simple and intuitive terrain exploration.

View

Quick Terrain Modeler allows you to visualize large amounts of data using the best data representations for your analysis and exploration. The Quick Terrain Modeler can view the points collected in a point cloud, such as a checkered surface in a DEM, or display both simultaneously. After viewing the data, the user can enhance the visualization by using visualization tools such as custom lighting, custom elevation palettes, model coloring, and elevation overkill.

Build

QT Modeler can work with prebuilt models (DEMs, DTEDs, etc.) or with raw point data. When starting with raw point data, typically in LAS format, users can create point clouds or surface models (or both) of these files. When creating surface models, the QT Modeler offers a wide variety of grid and triangulation options.

Understand

QT Modeler's interactive and powerful interface makes it easy to understand your data. For DoD users, this means understanding the terrain, achieving situational awareness, and an interactive 3D planning tool. For scientists and researchers, this means powerful statistical analyses that can be performed in seconds and immediately visualized. For those in the LiDAR production workflow, this means visual quality assurance tools and statistics. In fact, for any LiDAR data user, there are useful tools to help you understand your data and subsequently make decisions based on the new understanding found.

Explore

"Exploration", a word that is loaded with negative connotations in most sectors of society, is precisely the ultimate game for most Users of LiDAR and high-resolution 3D terrain data. For the end user, exploration means transforming data into useful information. This useful information can then answer questions, assist in decision making, and contribute to planning. The questions asked and the decisions being made vary widely across user sectors, but a consistent theme is that exploration should be fast, accurate, interactive, easy to learn, and easy to share with others. The Quick Terrain Modeler is all that.

Produce

LiDAR point clouds and DEMs are wonderful achievements in themselves, but ultimately data has been collected to assist in planning and decision making. For those users whose responsibility is to explore LiDAR, you know that showing someone a point cloud or DEM is not enough. What is needed is a standard product in a format that the end user can understand and use. Typically, this means highly annotated PowerPoint presentations, Grid Referenced Graphics (GRGs), routes exported to Garmin GPS, AVI movies, and other standard products. Quick Terrain Modeler eliminates the time and difficulty of creating these standard products with tools such as direct export to prefabricated PowerPoint models, useful 3D annotation tools, markers that can display images and/or symbology, direct export to GPX/Garmin GPS devices, and AVI video fly-through tools.

System Requirements

Operating system Windows 7 64bit

NVIDIA gpu or AMD/ATI

16GB RAM

CPU any modern CPU

Screen 1920×1080 (Full HD) or better