{"id":2657892,"date":"2025-01-23T07:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2657892"},"modified":"2025-01-27T04:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T12:10:51","slug":"streamline-your-reality-mapping-projects-with-the-new-coarse-water-workflow","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgisrealitystudio\/imagery\/streamline-your-reality-mapping-projects-with-the-new-coarse-water-workflow","title":{"rendered":"Streamline your ArcGIS Reality Studio Projects with our Coarse Water Body Workflow"},"author":349862,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22931],"tags":[38171,769422,773162,768972],"industry":[],"product":[769412],"class_list":["post-2657892","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagery","tag-3d-gis","tag-arcgis-reality","tag-arcgis-reality-studio","tag-reality-mapping","product-arcgisrealitystudio"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":349862,"user_firstname":"Felix","user_lastname":"Rohrbach","nickname":"Felix Rohrbach","user_nicename":"frohrbach","display_name":"Felix Rohrbach","user_email":"frohrbach@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2023-12-05 07:42:32","user_description":"Felix Rohrbach is a Senior Product Engineer at Esri, where he uses his deep expertise in LiDAR, imagery, and photogrammetric applications to push the boundaries of GIS solutions. 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Accurately modelling these features is crucial for creating 2D and 3D products in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-reality\/products\/arcgis-reality-studio\">ArcGIS Reality Studio<\/a>. However, their uniform texture, strong reflections, and variable appearance pose unique challenges. Traditionally, addressing these issues required tedious vectorizing work. Users could skip defining water bodies, but this often results in lower quality outputs. The new coarse water body workflow reduces the effort needed while maintaining high output quality, balancing effort and results effectively.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Water Body Digitization within ArcGIS Reality Studio<\/h2>\n<p>In the ever-evolving field of geospatial technology, ArcGIS Reality Studio stands out as a powerful tool for creating accurate and detailed 3D models. One of its standout features is the coarse water body workflow, which significantly reduces the time required for manual editing of water surfaces. By minimizing the number of vertices a user has to draw for water body geometries, this feature allows users to streamline their workflow and focus on other important aspects of their projects. Additionally, the coarse nature of these polygons allows for more variation in the water surface, meaning users can potentially reuse the same polygons for consecutive projects in the same area. Let\u2019s dive into what makes this workflow so special and how it can benefit your projects.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>The Coarse Water Body Workflow: A Game Changer<\/h2>\n<p>From the outset, Reality Studio has enabled users to provide precise polygons that accurately represent water surfaces at the time of data acquisition. When these polygons are supplied, they are considered during processing, resulting in smooth water surfaces in the specified areas. Although this approach yields pleasing results, the task of digitizing these water surface polygons has always been labor-intensive.<\/p>\n<p>The coarse water body workflow in Reality Studio simplifies this process by allowing users to digitize water bodies directly within the application. As the name suggests, these polygons no longer need to precisely follow the outlines of water surfaces but instead encapsulate the general water area. While the outline can be coarse, the elevation of the water body still needs to be correctly provided. 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This example also demonstrates how bridges and islands are automatically detected, ensuring that water surface correction is only applied where water has been detected. 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By simplifying the process of digitizing and processing water bodies, it allows users to produce high-quality Reality Mapping products with significantly less editing effort, saving both time and money. Whether you\u2019re involved in urban planning, environmental monitoring, or disaster management, this workflow can help you achieve better results with less effort.<\/p>\n<p>Are you still accurately digitizing your polygons manually? Discover the efficiency gains provided by the new coarse water body workflow in ArcGIS Reality Studio and see how it can streamline your projects and save valuable resources!<\/p>\n"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":2496432,"post_author":"9612","post_date":"2024-09-20 14:45:56","post_date_gmt":"2024-09-20 21:45:56","post_content":"","post_title":"A Sneak Peek at ArcGIS Reality Studio 2024.3","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-sneak-peek-at-arcgis-reality-studio-2024-3","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-09-23 15:57:59","post_modified_gmt":"2024-09-23 22:57:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2496432","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2208222,"post_author":"312882","post_date":"2024-02-06 05:00:08","post_date_gmt":"2024-02-06 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