Terrestrial Laser Scanning

• Different types of terrestrial laser scanners (TLS)
• TLS instruments' components and mode of operation
• Data acquisition with TLS instruments
• Different types of mobile terrestrial laser scanners (MTLS)
• Different types of airborne laser scanners (ALS)
• Handling point clouds
• Point cloud registration
• Georeferencing of point clouds
• General feature extraction and basic 3D modeling from point clouds
• Commonly used data formats
• Reporting and documentation of fieldwork and post-processing

By the end of the semester students will gain the following knowledge which are the fundamentals of digitalization in construction business:

• Fundamentals of the scanning mechanism of the latest TLS instruments
• Different georeferencing methods
• The relevant industry standards
• Statistical methods for quality analysis of an acquired dataset.

By the end of the semester students will gain the following skills:

• Setting up, operating and calibrating TLS instruments
• Matching overlapping scanned datasets (registration and georeferencing)
• Basics of feature extraction and 3D modeling
• Detection of systematic and gross error in the dataset; statistical analysis and tests against given criteria

General competence:

• Hazard assessment of using TLS instruments

• Lectures
• Project work
• Supervision

The course can be given as a guided self-study if less than 6 students are registered.