registration of 3D point clouds produced by Lidar

[chukcha2]

Hello,
I have a 3D LiDAR (Velodyne VLP-16). I can use it to get 3D point clouds as I am scanning. I was wondering if CloudCompare can register the point clouds to get a 3d model.

[daniel]

Well you can register points clouds (see the wiki: http://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/in ... gistration). But you shouldn't have to much of them as you can only register two clouds at a time.

Otherwise you can mesh cloud(s) either with 2.5D Delaunay or with 3D Poisson reconstruction. However other tools offer more possibilities.

[chukcha2]

Thank you Daniel,
So it seems like CC can do manual registration. Even tools under "Automatic registration" section seem to be manual.
How would meshing cloud(s) help me?
When you mentioned other tools, did you have any specific ones in mind?
Thank you.

[daniel]

Well the ICP tool is automatic (but to use it both clouds have to be already registered ;).

And for other meshing tools I was thinking about Meshlab... and a lot commercial tools.