Most rail organisations are now making widespread use of a variety of reality capture solutions including drone and aerial surveys, lidar scans, high-precision GPS/GNSS data capture, and CAD/BIM design plans. However, pulling that information together into a common platform is not always so easy. Many reality capture solutions come with their own built-in mapping apps, but most don’t support open geospatial data standards.
ArcGIS offers a unique capability to support the ingest and management of data from all these types of reality capture platforms. Esri has worked closely with partners such as Trimble and Leica to provide support for their high-precision survey products and data, and worked with drone and imagery suppliers to support rapid processing and dissemination of this data. Bringing this data together into a common geospatial platform offers the ability to start building a digital twin of your rail network, which can then be connected into sensor assets to build a live-time picture of the state of the network.