Fully Automated Profile-based Calibration Strategy for Airborne and Terrestrial Mobile LiDAR Systems with Spinning Multi-beam Laser Units
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Lyles School of Civil Engineering; OSTI
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Lyles School of Civil Engineering; Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Lyles School of Civil Engineering. Civil Engineering Center for Applications of UAS for a Sustainable Environment (CE-CAUSE)
LiDAR-based mobile mapping systems (MMS) are rapidly gaining popularity for a multitude of applications due to their ability to provide complete and accurate 3D point clouds for any and every scene of interest. However, an accurate calibration technique for such systems is needed in order to unleash their full potential. In this paper, we propose a fully automated profile-based strategy for the calibration of LiDAR-based MMS. The proposed technique is validated by comparing its accuracy against the expected point positioning accuracy for the point cloud based on the used sensors’ specifications. The proposed strategy was seen to reduce the misalignment between different tracks from approximately 2 to 3 m before calibration down to less than 2 cm after calibration for airborne as well as terrestrial mobile LiDAR mapping systems. In other words, the proposed calibration strategy can converge to correct estimates of mounting parameters, even in cases where the initial estimates are significantly different from the true values. Furthermore, the results from the proposed strategy are also verified by comparing them to those from an existing manually-assisted feature-based calibration strategy. The major contribution of the proposed strategy is its ability to conduct the calibration of airborne and wheel-based mobile systems without any requirement for specially designed targets or features in the surrounding environment. The above claims are validated using experimental results conducted for three different MMS – two airborne and one terrestrial – with one or more LiDAR unit.
- Research Organization:
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000593
- OSTI ID:
- 1799034
- Journal Information:
- Remote Sensing, Journal Name: Remote Sensing Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 12; ISSN 2072-4292
- Publisher:
- MDPICopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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