Static calibration and analysis of the velodyne HDL-64E S2 for high accuracy mobile scanning

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1610-1624

  Glennie, Craig ^a   Lichti, Derek D ^b  

^a Terrapoint USA Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Error analysis; Lidar; System calibration

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CALIBRATION MODEL; FEATURE-BASED; INTERNAL CALIBRATION; LASER SCANNER DATA; LEAST SQUARES ADJUSTMENTS; LIDAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; STANDARD FACTORY; STATIC CALIBRATION; SYSTEM CALIBRATION; VELODYNE;

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; SCANNING;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84860390113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2061610     Document Type: Article

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