Influence of range measurement noise on roughness characterization of rock surfaces using terrestrial laser scanning

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1215-1223

  Khoshelham, Kourosh ^a,c   Altundag, Dogan ^a   Ngan Tillard, Dominique ^b   Menenti, Massimo ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Laser scanning; Noise; Roughness length; Wavelet de noising

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL DIMENSION; LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

APPLICATION OF LASER; LASER SCANNER DATA; LASER SCANNING; MEASUREMENT NOISE; NOISE; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; ROCK SURFACES; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; WAVELET DENOISING;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AMPLITUDE; EXPERIMENT; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; LASER; ROCK PROPERTY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 81955167930     PISSN: 13651609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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