Characterization of the optical encoder angular noise from terrestrial laser scanners

verfasst von

Gaël Kermarrec, Jens Hartmann

Abstract

Rigorous statistical testing of deformation using a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) can avoid events such as structure collapses. Such a procedure necessitates an accurate description of the TLS measurements’ noise, which should include the correlations between angles. Unfortunately, these correlations are often unaccounted for due to a lack of knowledge. This contribution addresses this challenge. We combine (i) a least-square approximation to extract the geometry of the TLS point cloud with the aim to analyze the residuals of the fitting and (ii) a specific filtering coupled with a maximum likelihood estimation to quantify the amount of flicker noise versus white noise. This allows us to set up fully populated variance covariance matrices of the TLS noise as a result.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Geodätisches Institut
QuantumFrontiers

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Optics express

Band

29

Seiten

17011-17022

Anzahl der Seiten

12

ISSN

1094-4087

Publikationsdatum

24.05.2021

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Atom- und Molekularphysik sowie Optik

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.422735 (Zugang: Offen)