CloudCompare is a robust, free to use, open-source project for processing, editing and analyzing various 2.5D, 3D formats, with empasis on Lidar, photogrammetric and terrestrial laser scan 3D point clouds (and 3D meshes). It is developed at EDF R&D by Daniel Girardeau-Montaut, released in the public domain under GPL license, with many extended capabilities by the community as plugin extensions.
CloudCompare’s main use involves direct comparison between point clouds (or point clouds and meshes) for settlement or elevation change detection, registration and aligning features, and resampling techniques. More advanced tools focus on point cloud classification, surface filters and segmentation algorithms.
