Reality Capture Explained

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Reality Capture Services Provided by GPRS

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Reality capture generates a highly accurate 3D BIM model of a building or site by scanning real-world conditions with long-range terrestrial laser scanners. Through LiDAR-based 3D laser scanning or photogrammetry, millions of surface points are measured and mapped to create a high-resolution, geometrically accurate model. The resulting dataset integrates directly with design, visualization, and analysis software, supporting efficient planning, construction, and asset management.

Reality capture data eliminates uncertainty and provides accurate, actionable information to rely on throughout your project’s lifecycle. Fully customizable to meet your specific project requirements, this data to reduces site visits, optimizes workflows, and ultimately keeps your project running on time, on budget, and safe.

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Reality Capture Explained

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Reality Capture Services Provided by GPRS

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Reality capture generates a highly accurate 3D BIM model of a building or site by scanning real-world conditions with long-range terrestrial laser scanners. Through LiDAR-based 3D laser scanning or photogrammetry, millions of surface points are measured and mapped to create a high-resolution, geometrically accurate model. The resulting dataset integrates directly with design, visualization, and analysis software, supporting efficient planning, construction, and asset management.

Reality capture data eliminates uncertainty and provides accurate, actionable information to rely on throughout your project’s lifecycle. Fully customizable to meet your specific project requirements, this data to reduces site visits, optimizes workflows, and ultimately keeps your project running on time, on budget, and safe.

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3D Laser Scanning
GPRS offers construction-grade 3D laser scanning services to deliver 2-6mm accurate as-built documentation for any building, facility, or site – regardless of age, size, or location within the United States. Using advanced LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology, our scanners capture millions of precise measurements, generating detailed point cloud files that form the basis for 2D CAD drawings, 3D models, and BIM deliverables. 3D laser scanning captures exact site dimensions and offers a cost-effective solution for as-built drawings and facility data.
Point Clouds
Point cloud data is the outcome of 3D laser scanning, which captures precise spatial information of your site, building, or terrain using LiDAR technology, recording X, Y, and Z coordinates for every visible surface. GPRS Project Managers leverage advanced Leica 3D laser scanners to capture this data with millimeter accuracy, which can then be imported into CAD or BIM software for detailed analysis and modification. CAD engineers may prefer to work directly with the point cloud for their design needs without additional processing.
2D CAD Drawings
The GPRS Mapping and Modeling Team transforms your point cloud data into highly accurate 2D CAD drawings using advanced CAD software. They can also develop detailed 3D models in BIM software and extract precise 2D views by slicing through the model.Deliverables include site plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, details, isometric views, and reflected ceiling plans – essential tools for your construction planning, renovations, and building modifications. We can work within your template and standards, so that our as-builts are as useful and turnkey for you as possible.
3D BIM Models
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent, collaborative process that integrates point cloud data and 3D modeling to support the design, construction, and operation of a building throughout its entire life cycle. By combining scan-to-BIM technology with detailed material, cost, and spatial data, GPRS empowers your project team to Intelligently Visualize The Built World® to provide field to finish solutions – from project inception through facility management.
3D Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry uses a 3D camera – optionally equipped with LiDAR, to digitally document buildings, facilities, and sites through high-resolution imagery. 4K HDR photographs are taken from multiple positions and angles using tripod-mounted, wearable, drone-mounted, or crane-mounted systems to generate a complete 360° view of your site. This process saves time compared to traditional ground surveys and expedites decision making.
Drone Surveys
GPRS Drone Survey Service delivers high-resolution imagery, video, mapping, and 3D modeling to support accurate and comprehensive visualization of the built environment.Utilizing FAA-licensed drone pilots, our team ensures safe, compliant, and efficient data capture across large-scale, hazardous, or hard-to-access sites. High-definition (HD) color image resolutions allow for accurate identification of anomalies at both small and large scales within your project.
Ortho-Mosaic Imagery
An ortho-mosaic image is generated by processing drone-captured imagery through photogrammetry and orthorectification, producing a single, georeferenced image that corrects geometric distortions and applies color correction and balancing to deliver a cohesive and accurate visual dataset, enabling more informed decision making and streamlined planning.
3D Mesh
The GPRS Mapping & Modeling team can generate a 3D mesh in fbx, .stl, .obj, and .ply file formats directly from a LiDAR point cloud, enabling you to work with complex geometries in a CAD environment without navigating a point cloud. These meshes are ideal for repairing or restoring scanned elements with fine, organic details that are otherwise challenging to reproduce using traditional CAD modeling techniques. 3D meshes are valuable in historic preservation, preserving sculptures, creating digital replicas of trees, and much more.
Virtual Tours
WalkThru 3D, delivered via SiteMap® (patent pending), gives you remote access to high-resolution reality capture with in-image measurement tools to support your planning and coordination efforts.PRO CAP Progressive Capture provides scheduled, 3D virtual tours that accurately document your site’s construction progress, including structural and MEP elements, delivering reliable data to improve communication, track changes, and monitor milestones throughout your project. A virtual tour of your project is highly recommended if you need to assess it with your project team without the need for physical travel, resulting in significant time savings and enhanced collaboration.
Virtual Tours
Digital twins are real-time, data-driven virtual replicas of physical assets, processes, or systems that allow you and your project team to simulate and manage every phase of a project – from design to operation. By integrating inputs from 3D BIM, IoT sensors, and GIS platforms, digital twins give you a dynamic, centralized view of your construction site, enhancing decision-making, efficiency, and sustainability. Implementing digital twin technologies can increasingly streamline company workflows, improve employee collaboration and communication, and eliminate time-consuming manual tasks.
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Our Process

Plan
At GPRS, our experienced team partners with you to thoroughly assess your project scope, site conditions, and technical requirements to deliver customized, highly accurate 3D laser scanning. Through meticulous pre-scan planning, including reality capture technology selection, software, and LOD, we ensure your project is executed to your standards.
Reality Capture
The Project Manager will determine the optimal laser scanner, whether terrestrial or Matterport, based on the project's size, detail and required accuracy. By capturing millions of X, Y, Z coordinates, the scanner provides you with 2–4 mm accurate dimensions and a detailed layout of the scanned environment, which ensures a comprehensive data capture plan aligned with your project scope.
Registration & Processing
The GPRS Mapping & Modeling Team processes the point cloud by eliminating noise, duplicate points, and extraneous objects, while aligning the scan data to the real-world coordinate system. This refined dataset serves as the foundation for generating precise 3D Revit models, 3D meshes, and 2D CAD drawings.
Quality Assurance
The GPRS Mapping & Modeling Team applies a rigorous quality control process to every point cloud and deliverable, ensuring unmatched accuracy and reliability.
Delivery
GPRS delivers your data, as-builts, maps, and models quickly in a variety of file formats tailored to your needs – including cloud platforms and our infrastructure data platform, SiteMap. Our team provides technical support to ensure you can effectively work with laser scan data, especially if you're new to point clouds or 3D models.

How Reality Capture Technology Helps You Plan, Build, and Manage Better

GPRS’ Reality Capture services deliver accurate as-built documentation that streamlines your workflow, lowers project costs, and reduces change orders, which enable you to focus on what you do best.

  • Easy Collaboration
  • Improved Safety
  • Informed Decision-Making
  • More Accurate Documentation
  • Removes Guesswork
  • Saves Time and Money

When you partner with GPRS, you receive a complete data set and as-built documentation that can integrate into your design and visualization software.

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Upstream, midstream & downstream locating services

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Subsurface solutions for critical facilities

Facilities

Underground infrastructure maps & drawings

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Utility locating & video pipe inspection

Environmental Due Diligence

Utility locating prior to boring, sampling or excavation

Civil, Road & Bridge

Concrete reinforcement scanning & mapping

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Concrete scanning & private utility locating

Education

Scanning, locating & mapping for existing campuses

Retail & Restaurant Construction

Support of nationwide retail rollouts

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Scan-to-BIM technology helps you take any project from inception to completion with accurate and easy to understand data integration to ensure smooth communication and avoid cost overruns and delays. What project can GPRS help you visualize?

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Laser scanning is an unmatched facility documentation and management tool with benefits that span the life of any facility. Our Project Managers, model designers, and CAD designers work together to help you Visualize The Built World® to help you reduce downtime and costs so that your projects come in on time and on budget.

USIBD is an organization dedicated to creating standards for building documentation. GPRS 3D Laser Scanning strongly believes in the importance of creating specifications and guidelines for the US construction industry. These established criteria drive quality excellence, improve efficiencies, establish expectations and build credibility. For these reasons, GPRS is proud to be a member of US Institute of Building Documentation.

GPRS 3D Laser Scanning is an unmatched facility documentation and management tool with benefits that span the life of any facility. Our Project Managers, model designers, and CAD designers work together to help you Intelligently Visualize The Built World™ to help you reduce downtime and costs so that your projects come in on time and on budget.

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