Surveying Laser Scanning

Catalog description

Introduction to laser scanning surveying. Principles of Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) technologies from terrestrial and mobile platforms. The process of point cloud generation from LiDAR techniques are discussed. The course covers the registration and geo-referencing process from multiple scans for indoor and outdoor data acquisition, as well as the direct geo-referencing and point cloud generation from mobile platforms. Error sources in terrestrial and mobile sensors and their system calibration procedures for quantifying and modeling such errors. Industry standard software is used for processing and analysis of point clouds for surveying applications related to 3D modeling, terrain modeling, creating drawings in CAD, and change detection of natural and man-made structures.