Franklin Mountains LIDAR Point Clouds

By Reuben Reyes and Dr. Jerome Bellian

The University of Texas at Austin

The following 3D images are 10 sections of the Franklin Mountains, using WebGL to display point cloud data.
To view, you'll need a WebGL-enabled browser. (Mozilla FireFox v4.0 or Google Chrome v10)
To zoom in or out use mouse wheel or the up and down arrow keys.
To change the point size use the right and left arrow keys.
Click on any of the 11 images to start a 3D point cloud viewer.

  3D Franklin Mountains LIDAR Section 1 by Reuben Reyes
1 Natural color 		3D Franklin Mountains LIDAR Section 2 by Reuben Reyes
2 Natural color 		3D Franklin Mountains LIDAR Section 3 by Reuben Reyes
3 Natural color 		3D Franklin Mountains LIDAR Section 4 by Reuben Reyes
4 Natural color 		3D Franklin Mountains LIDAR Section 5 by Reuben Reyes
5 Natural color

 3D Franklin Mountains LIDAR Section 6 by Reuben Reyes
6 Natural color 		3D Franklin Mountains LIDAR Section 7 by Reuben Reyes
7 Hyperspectral 		3D Franklin Mountains LIDAR Section 8 by Reuben Reyes
8 Hyperspectral 		3D Franklin Mountains LIDAR Section 9 by Reuben Reyes
9 Hyperspectral 		3D Franklin Mountains LIDAR Section 10 by Reuben Reyes
10 Hyperspectral

  3D Franklin Mountains color LIDAR by Reuben Reyes
Each section has approximately 1 million points, a subset of the original data set.
The full original Franklin mountain point cloud data set contains 98,349,810 points.
Each point (XYZ) has a (RGB) color attribute and (IJK) normal vector for shading.

Point Clouds courtesy of RCRL Bureau of Economic Geology.
Research by Jerome Bellian (LIDAR data from ground, air fixed wing and helicopter).
Natural color data from air fixed wing and hyperspectral data from satellite.
Point Cloud processing and visualization by Reuben Reyes.
Open Source software XB PointStream used for streaming/rendering and examples from Andor Salga.

YouTube example of viewing section 7 of this page.