An overview of the Feature Extraction toolset

The Feature Extraction toolset contains tools that derive features from point clouds, elevation surfaces, integrated meshes, and more. From creating digital twins by modeling 3D buildings, power lines, and railway tracks to generating cartographically refined building footprints, the tools in this toolset support a variety of applications.

Feature Extraction toolset

Tools in the Feature Extraction toolset

Tool	Description
Extract LOD2 Buildings	Creates 3D building models using their polygon footprints and a raster or point cloud based height source.
Extract Mesh Features Using Point Cloud	Extracts multipatch features representing objects in an integrated mesh based on a classified point cloud.
Extract Multipatch From Mesh	Creates a multipatch feature from the portion of an integrated mesh that overlaps a polygon.
Extract Objects From Point Cloud	Extracts distinct objects from a classified point cloud into point, polygon, or multipatch features.
Extract Power Lines From Point Cloud	Extracts 3D line features modeling power lines from classified point cloud data.
Extract Rails From Point Cloud	Extracts rail track lines and center lines from classified railroad tracks in a LAS dataset, point cloud scene layer package, or I3S point cloud layer.
LAS Building Multipatch	Creates building models using rooftop points in a LAS dataset.
Multipatch Footprint	Creates polygon footprints representing the two-dimensional area of multipatch features.
Regularize Adjacent Building Footprint	Regularizes building footprints that have common boundaries.
Regularize Building Footprint	Normalizes the footprint of building polygons by eliminating undesirable artifacts in their geometry.