Due to gravitation, the main reflector of a radio telescope underlies a deformation which causes a change in focal length depending on the variations of the elevation angle of the telescope. In order to estimate these ...

Gantry cranes load and unload containers from container ships. To ensure safety and operation, the deflection of their main beams under load should be analyzed. This deflection depends on the weight of the loaded container ...

The ability to acquire rapid, dense and high quality 3D data has made terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) a desirable instrument for tasks demanding a high geometrical accuracy, such as geodetic deformation analyses. However, ...

The accuracy of georeferenced TLS point clouds is directly influenced by site-dependent GNSS effects, deteriorating the accuracy of the ground control point coordinate estimation. Especially under challenging GNSS ...

The target-based point cloud registration and calibration of terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) are mathematically modeled and solved by the least-squares adjustment. However, usual stochastic models are simplified to a ...

Levellings are performed to observe height changes of different epochs at discrete surveying points. A reliable estimation of surface deformations by a bivariate polynomial needs a sufficient configuration of the underlying ...

When using terrestrial laser scanners for high quality analyses, calibrating the laser scanner is crucial due to unavoidable misconstruction of the instrument leading to systematic errors. Consequently, the development of ...

The estimates based on laser scans of surfaces with unknown deformations are biased and not reproducible when changing the scanning geometry. While the existence of a bias is only disadvantageous at some applications, ...

Dieser Beitrag stellt einen Überblick über den Ablauf einer flächenhaften Deformationsanalyse basierend auf terrestrischen Laserscannern (TLS) dar, wobei speziell auf die Datenerfassung, Vorverarbeitung und Auswertung ...

The main reflectors of radio telescopes deform due to gravitation when changing their elevation angle. This can be analyzed by scanning the paraboloid surface with a terrestrial laser scanner and by determining focal length ...