A decade of experience from commercial 3D laser range sensors for ground applications

Håkan Larsson

doi:10.1117/12.2009524

19 November 2012 A decade of experience from commercial 3D laser range sensors for ground applications

Håkan Larsson

Proceedings Volume 8542, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing, Photonic Technologies, and Applications VI; 854202 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2009524
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2012, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

For use in the development of synthetic environment models, the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) bought two laser scanners in the beginning of this millennium, one from the Austrian company Riegl and one from the Canadian Optech. This was the start for over a decade of use of commercial laser range sensors at FOI. The laser scanners have so far been used for different applications such as point cloud algorithm development (detection, classification and reconnaissance of targets), phenomenology studies, reflectance measurements and environment and ground truth measurements. This paper presents different laser scanner technologies (pulsed Time of Flight, Continues Wave (CW), Flash and distributed light) and compare advantages and limitations of the technologies. The paper also include some examples of the use of laser scanning in applications and presents methods for laser range sensors performance evaluation used and developed at FOI.

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Håkan Larsson "A decade of experience from commercial 3D laser range sensors for ground applications", Proc. SPIE 8542, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing, Photonic Technologies, and Applications VI, 854202 (19 November 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2009524

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