Real-time indexing and visualization of LiDAR point clouds with arbitrary attributes using the M3NO data structure

Paul Hermann, Michel Krämer, Tobias Dorra, Arjan Kuijper

Abstract: Highlights•Integrated system for indexing, querying, and visualizing 3D point clouds.•Works in real-time, i.e. while the data is recorded, and supports any attributes.•Out-of-core processing allows arbitrarily large datasets to be indexed.•Large point clouds can be visualized even on devices with limited capacity.