Featured Application The review presented in this work has practical application to the
conception, development and refinement of new technologies and visualisation frameworks …

As laser scanning technology has improved a lot in recent years, terrestrial laser scanners
(TLS) have become popular devices for surveying tasks with high accuracy demands, such …

Laser sensors can be used to measure distances to objects and their related parameters
(displacements, position, surface profiles and velocities). Laser sensors are based on many …

Mobile laser scanning has become an established measuring technique that is used for
many applications in the fields of mapping, inventory, and monitoring. Due to the increasing …

The determination of a fully populated variance-covariance matrix (VCM) of a point cloud
acquired with a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) is not straightforward as physical correlations …

This study proposes a novel FSM compensation system for four degrees of freedom (DOF)
laser errors compensation, which has the advantage of shorter optical path length, fewer …

Due to recent improvements in sensor technology, UAV-based laser scanning is nowadays
used in more and more applications like topographic surveying or forestry. The quality of the …

The best unbiased estimates of unknown parameters in linear models have the smallest
expected mean-squared errors as long as the residuals are weighted with their true variance …

Kinematic laser scanning is widely used for the fast and accurate acquisition of road
corridors. In this context, road monitoring is a crucial application, since deficiencies of the …

Spline approximation, using both values yi and xi as observations, is of vital importance for
engineering geodesy, eg, for approximation of profiles measured with terrestrial laser …