Airborne and terrestrial laser scanning / edited by George Vosselman, Hans-Gerd Maas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 systems1.3.3 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 scannersAcknowledgements -- 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 models3.1.1 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

SummaryReferences -- 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

Annotation Written by a team of international experts, this major text provides the state-of-the-art on laser scanning technology. It focuses on principles and methods and presents an integrated treatment of airborne and terrestrial laser scanning technology. It brings together the various facets of the subject in a coherent text that will be relevant for advanced students, academics and practitioners.

English.

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