Generating Contours from Point Clouds in Global Mapper

A quick demonstration of a workflow for contour generation using point cloud data in Global Mapper.

2022-08-05 tutorial contours point clouds lidar Global Mapper 128 words 1 min

Table of Contents

Introduction
Steps taken in the workflow
Tutorial video
Useful links

Introduction

Here is a quick video demonstration of my workflow for contour generation using point cloud (lidar in this case) data in Global Mapper. The data that I used was the lidar point clouds for City of Cape Town (South Africa), but the same workflow can be used for any point cloud data format. Global Mapper 18.0 was used in the recording of this tutorial.

Steps taken in the workflow

Load the point cloud data into Global Mapper.
Create an elevation grid from the point cloud data.
Generate Contours from the elevation grid created in step 2.

Tutorial video

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/eyeUoo7UU48

Useful links

For more information please have a look at the following links:

Lidar Load Options: https://www.bluemarblegeo.com/knowledgebase/global-mapper-19/Lidar_Module/Lidar_Load_Options.htm
Create Elevation Grid: https://www.bluemarblegeo.com/knowledgebase/global-mapper-19/Create_Elevation_Grid_from_3D_Vector_Data.htm
Create Contours: https://www.bluemarblegeo.com/knowledgebase/global-mapper-19/Generate_Contours.htm