Two methods to estimate the spot size of terrestrial laser scanners

Journal of Surveying Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 126-131

  Centeno, Jorge Antonio Silva ^a   Wutke, Juliana Dias ^a   Mitishita, Edson Aparecido ^a   Vögtle, Thomas ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Surveying; Terrestrial laser scanner

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BEAM DIVERGENCE; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DIRECT METHOD; EDGE EFFECT; LASER SCANNER; POINT DENSITY; SHARP EDGES; SPOT DIAMETER; SPOT SIZES; TECHNICAL NOTES; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS;

EXPERIMENTS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; ROADS AND STREETS; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SURVEYS;

SCANNING;

LASER; MODELING; SCANNER; SURVEYING;

EID: 77955830294     PISSN: 07339453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)SU.1943-5428.0000021     Document Type: Article

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