Abstract
Requirement of high accuracy data in surveying applications has made calibration procedure a standard routine for all surveying instruments. This is due to the assumption that all observed data are impaired with errors. Thus, this routine is also applicable to terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) to make it available for surveying purposes. There are two calibration approaches: (1) component, and (2) system calibration. With the intention to specifically identify the errors and accuracy of the Leica ScanStation C10 scanner, this study investigates component calibration. Three components of calibration were performed to identify the constant, scale error, accuracy of angular measurement and the effect of angular resolution for distance measurement. The first calibration has been processed using closed least square solutions and has yielded the values of constant (1.2 mm) and scale error (1.000008879). Using variance ratio test (F-Test), angles observation (horizontal and vertical) for Leica C10 scanner and Leica TM5100A theodolite have shown significance difference. This is because the accuracy of both sensors are not similar and these differences are 0.01 and 0.0075º for horizontal and vertical measurements, respectively. Investigation on the resolution setting for Leica C10 scanner has highlighted the drawback of the tilt-and-turn target. Using the highest resolution, Leica Cyclone software only able to recognize the tilt-and-turn target up to 10 m distance compare to 200 m for the black and white target.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Böhler W, Bordas VM, Marbs A (2003) Investigating laser scanner accuracy. The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, vol XXXIV(Part 5/C 15):696–701
Böhler W, Marbs A (2005) Investigating laser scanner accuracy. Institute for spatial information and surveying technology. FH Mainz, University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany
Gopal KK (1999) 100 statistical test. SAGE Publications Ltd, Thousand Oaks
Gordon S, Davies N, Keighley D, Lichti D, Franke J (2005) A rigorous rangefinder calibration method for terrestrial laser scanners. J Spat Sci 50(2):91–96
Hebert M, Krotkov E (1992) 3D measurements from imaging laser radars: how good are they? Image Vis Comput 10(3):170–178
Leica (2002) TPS1100 profesional series-technical data. Leica Geosystems AG, Heerburgg
Lichti DD, Gordon SJ (2004) Error propagation in directly georeferenced terrestrial laser scanner point clouds for cultural heritage recording. In Proceeding of FIG Working Week, Athens
Lichti DD (2007) Error modelling, calibration and analysis of an AM-CW terrestrial laser scanner system. ISPRS J Photogram Remote Sens 61(2007):307–324
Rabbani T (2006) Automatic reconstruction of industrial installations using point clouds and images. A thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at TU Delft
Reshetyuk Y (2009) Self-calibration and direct georeferencing in terrestrial laser scanning. Doctoral thesis in infrastructure, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
Rueger JM (1996) Electronic distance measurement: an introduction, 4th edn. Springer, Berlin
Schulz T (2007) Calibration of terrestrial laser scanner for engineering geodesy. A dissertation submitted for the degree of doctor of scinces, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin
Schofield W, Breach M (2007) Engineering surveying, 6th edn. Published by Elsevier Ltd, Amsterdam
Pu S (2008) Automatic building modeling from terrestrial laser scanning. Springer, Berlin
Varady T, Martin R (2002) Reverse engineering. Chapter in handbook of computer aided geometric design, Elsevier Science B. V
Wunderlich TA (2003) Terrestrial laser scanners-an important step towards construction information. In Proceeding of FIG Working Week, Paris
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Abbas, M.A., Setan, H., Majid, Z., Chong, A.K., Idris, K.M., Aspuri, A. (2013). Calibration and Accuracy Assessment of Leica ScanStation C10 Terrestrial Laser Scanner. In: Abdul Rahman, A., Boguslawski, P., Gold, C., Said, M. (eds) Developments in Multidimensional Spatial Data Models. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36379-5_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36379-5_3
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-36378-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-36379-5
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)