- Founder's Perspective: Unveiling FME 2012
- The Faculty of XMoLogy
- FME Server Now With Push Notifications
- FME and the Vault of Data – in 3D!
- Must-Have New Tools for Your Next Expedition
- The World Isn’t Round
- Adventures in FME Server Administration
- Sensors Everywhere!
- MeteoSwiss Tames Climatology Data with FME Server
- FME and the Silver-Lined Cloud
- FME User Spotlight: Lou Manglass, GISP
- The New FMEpedia Knowledge Base
- FME Training Updates
- Unlock the Secrets of Spatial with the FME Webinar Library
- FME 2012 World Tour
- Employee Spotlight: Iain McCarthy
Really Big Point Cloud News
Working with a billion-point LiDAR dataset? Bring it on! With FME 2012's point cloud handling improvements, tile a billion-point dataset in under six hours. And if you're an Oracle® user, our shiny new Oracle Point Cloud reader/writer may astound you with its performance.
On the topic of formats, not only is LAS 1.0 – 1.2 supported, but now LAZ compression can reduce your datasets to between 10 to 30% of their former size.
2012 brings new point cloud processing features too – cubic clipping tiles your data in three dimensions, useful for eliminating points that throw out your vertical scale. New color and intensity filtering options can assist with primitive feature extraction, and colorization from rasters provides new ways to visually present your data.
Learn about point cloud support in FME at www.safe.com/pointclouds.
