Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808192303321
• Autore: Vosselman G
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dunbeath, : Whittles Publishing, 2010
• ISBN: 1-62870-092-0; 1-84995-013-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MaasH.G
• Disciplina: 910.285
• Soggetti: Imaging systems in geology; Laser recording; Optical scanners; Remote sensing; Three-dimensional imaging in geology; Geography; Earth & Environmental Sciences; Geography-General
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""The Authors""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1 Laser Scanning Technology""; ""1.1 Basic measurement principles of laser scanners""; ""1.1.1 Time-of-flight measurement""; ""1.1.2 Phase measurement techniques""; ""1.1.3 Triangulation-based measurements""; ""1.2 Components of laser scanners""; ""1.2.1 Light sources""; ""1.2.2 Laser beam propagation""; ""1.2.3 Photodetection""; ""1.2.4 Propagation medium and scene effects""; ""1.2.5 Scanning/projection mechanisms""; ""1.3 Basics of airborne laser scanning""; ""1.3.1 Principle of airborne laser scanning""; ""1.3.2 Integration of on-board systems""""1.3.3 Global Positioning System/Inertial Measurements Unit combination""; ""1.3.4 Laser scanner properties""; ""1.3.5 Pulse repetition frequency and point density""; ""1.3.6 Multiple echoes and full-waveform digitisation""; ""1.3.7 Airborne laser scanner error budget""; ""1.4 Operational aspects of airborne laser scanning""; ""1.4.1 Flight planning""; ""1.4.2 Survey ; flight""; ""1.4.3 Data processing""; ""1.4.4 Airborne laser scanning and cameras""; ""1.4.5 Advantages and limitations of airborne laser scanning""; ""1.5 Airborne lidar bathymetry""; ""1.6 Terrestrial laser scanners""""Acknowledgements""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2 Visualisation and Structuring""; ""2.1 Visualisation""; ""2.1.1 Conversion of point clouds to images""; ""2.1.2 Point-based rendering""; ""2.2 Data structures""; ""2.2.1 Delaunay triangulation""; ""2.2.2 Octrees""; ""2.2.3 k-D tree""; ""2.3 Point cloud segmentation""; ""2.3.1 3D Hough transform""; ""2.3.2 The random sample consensus algorithm""; ""2.3.3 Surface growing""; ""2.3.4 Scan line segmentation""; ""2.4 Data compression""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3 Registration and Calibration""; ""3.1 Geometric models""""3.1.1 Rotations""; ""3.1.2 The geometry of terrestrial laser scanning""; ""3.1.3 The geometry of airborne laser scanning""; ""3.2 Systematic error sources and models""; ""3.2.1 Systematic errors and models of terrestrial laser scanning""; ""3.2.2 Errors and models for airborne laser scanning""; ""3.3 Registration""; ""3.3.1 Registration of terrestrial laser scanning data""; ""3.3.2 Registration of airborne laser scanning data""; ""3.4 System calibration""; ""3.4.1 Calibration of terrestrial laser scanners""; ""3.4.2 Calibration of airborne laser scanners""; ""Summary""""References""; ""Chapter 4 Extraction of Digital Terrain Models""; ""4.1 Filtering of point clouds""; ""4.1.1 Morphological filtering""; ""4.1.2 Progressive densification""; ""4.1.3 Surface-based filtering""; ""4.1.4 Segment-based filtering""; ""4.1.5 Filter comparison""; ""4.1.6 Potential of full-waveform information for advanced filtering""; ""4.2 Structure line determination""; ""4.3 Digital terrain model generation""; ""4.3.1 Digital terrain model determination from terrestrial laser scanning data""; ""4.3.2 Digital terrain model quality""; ""4.3.3 Digital terrain model data reduction""