View point cloud data offline

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Display local 3D point cloud data.

Image of view point cloud data offline

Use case

Point clouds are often used to visualize massive sets of sensor data such as lidar. The point locations indicate where the sensor data was measured spatially, and the color or size of the points indicate the measured/derived value of the sensor reading. In the case of lidar, the color of the visualized point could be the color of the reflected light, so that the point cloud forms a true color 3D image of the area.

Point clouds can be loaded offline from scene layer packages (.slpk).

How to use the sample

The sample starts with a point cloud layer loaded and draped on top of a scene. Pan and zoom to explore the scene and see the detail of the point cloud layer.

How it works

  1. Create a PointCloudLayer with the path to a local .slpk file containing a point cloud layer.
  2. Add the layer to a scene's operational layers collection with operationalLayers.add(pointCloudLayer).

Relevant API

  • PointCloudLayer

About the data

This point cloud data comes from Balboa Park in San Diego, California. Created and provided by USGS.

Offline Data

  1. Download the data from ArcGIS Online.
  2. Open your command prompt and navigate to the folder where you extracted the contents of the data from step 1.
  3. Push the data into the scoped storage of the sample app:

adb push sandiego-north-balboa-pointcloud.slpk /Android/data/com.esri.arcgisruntime.sample.viewpointclouddataoffline/files/sandiego-north-balboa-pointcloud.slpk

Tags

3D, lidar, point cloud

Sample Code

MainActivity.kt
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package com.esri.arcgisruntime.samples.viewpointclouddataoffline

import android.os.Bundle
import android.util.Log
import android.widget.Toast
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.ArcGISRuntimeEnvironment
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.layers.PointCloudLayer
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.loadable.LoadStatus
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.ArcGISScene
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.ArcGISTiledElevationSource
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.BasemapStyle
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.Surface
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.Camera
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.mapping.view.SceneView
import com.esri.arcgisruntime.samples.viewpointclouddataoffline.databinding.ActivityMainBinding

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    private val TAG = MainActivity::class.java.simpleName

    private val activityMainBinding by lazy {
        ActivityMainBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
    }

    private val sceneView: SceneView by lazy {
        activityMainBinding.sceneView
    }

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(activityMainBinding.root)

        // authentication with an API key or named user is required to access basemaps and other
        // location services
        ArcGISRuntimeEnvironment.setApiKey(BuildConfig.API_KEY)

        // create a surface with an elevation source
        val surface = Surface().apply {
            elevationSources.add(ArcGISTiledElevationSource(getString(R.string.elevation_source_url)))
        }

        // create a scene with the surface
        val sceneWithSurface = ArcGISScene(BasemapStyle.ARCGIS_IMAGERY).apply {
            baseSurface = surface
        }

        // create the scene view with an initial viewpoint and scene
        sceneView.apply {
            // create a camera and initial camera position
            setViewpointCamera(
                Camera(
                    32.7321157,
                    -117.150072,
                    452.282774,
                    25.481533,
                    78.0945859,
                    0.0
                )
            )
            // add the scene with the surface
            scene = sceneWithSurface
        }

        // create a PointCloudLayer by passing the URI of the scene layer package to the constructor
        val pointCloudLayer =
            PointCloudLayer(getExternalFilesDir(null)?.path + getString(R.string.scene_layer_package_location))
        // add the PointCloudLayer to the scene
        sceneView.scene.operationalLayers.add(pointCloudLayer)

        pointCloudLayer.addDoneLoadingListener {
            if (pointCloudLayer.loadStatus != LoadStatus.LOADED) {
                val error = "Point cloud layer failed to load: ${pointCloudLayer.loadError.message}"
                Log.e(TAG, error)
                Toast.makeText(this, error, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
            }
        }
    }

    override fun onResume() {
        super.onResume()
        sceneView.resume()
    }

    override fun onPause() {
        sceneView.pause()
        super.onPause()
    }

    override fun onDestroy() {
        sceneView.dispose()
        super.onDestroy()
    }
}

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