Mapping Jacobs University Bremen

Precise registration of terrestrial laser scan data using scan matching

The precise registration of terrestrial laser scans requires trained personal, professional scanner hardware, and usually proprietary software, as well as a large time frame for placing the targets, acquiring and processing of data. This video shows that this process can be sped up without losing the high quality of the results.


The data set consists of 122 laser scans, totalling more than 2 billion points, covering an area of 9ha on the campus of the Jacobs University Bremen. The data was acquired using a professional laser scanner, the Riegl VZ-400. After manual coarse registration the data was precisely aligned using the open source software 3DTK (http://threedtk.de).

-Dorit Borrmann, Jan Elseberg, Prashant K.C., and Andreas Nüchter

2012, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH


Music by Felix Borrmann (http://www.FelixunddieRasselbande.de)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• scan matching
• terrestrial laser scanning
• 3D point clouds

[achyut750]

Awesome!