Licensing options for this format begin with FME Professional Edition.
The RIEGL RDB Project (RDB_PROJECT) Reader allows FME to access data in RIEGL RiPROCESS or RiSCAN PRO projects.
Overview
A RIEGL Project (RDB_PROJECT) consists of various files and folders that are organized with respect to further processing and visualization. Each project contains a root file, multiple subfolders, and multiple data and index files. A dataset is a root project file, which is an XML file that contains information such as the POP (Project Orientation and Position) transformation matrix and SOP (Scanner Orientation and Position) matrices for the point cloud data. By convention, a RiPROCESS root project file has a *.rpp extension, and a RiSCAN PRO root project file has a *.rsp extension.
The RDB_PROJECT reader is an abstraction called an FME Customized Format over the RDB file reader and the XML file reader. It extracts the a POP matrix and, if present, SOP matrices for each scanner, from the root project file and searches all subfolders in the root project folder for *P3D.rdxs point cloud files. The RDB_PROJECT reader then applies the SOP and POP matricesx to the point cloud. As a Customized Format, the RDB_PROJECT format has no metafile or messages of its own.