Terrestrial LiDAR Surveying

Terrestrial LiDAR scanning is used in conventional topography, monitoring, culture heritage documentation and forensics. The 3-D point clouds acquired from these type of scanners can be matched with digital images taken of the scanned area from the scanner's location to create realistic looking 3-D modes in relatively short time when compared to other technologies. Each point in the point cloud is given the color of the pixel from the image it taken located at the same angle as the laser beam that created the point.