Reducing Non-rigidity in TLS Point Clouds Induced by Inhomogeneous Systematic Errors Using Free-form Surface Modeling

Yang, Yihui; Harmening, Corinna; Czerwonka-Schröder, Daniel; Holst, Christoph

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Reducing Non-rigidity in TLS Point Clouds Induced by Inhomogeneous Systematic Errors Using Free-form Surface Modeling

Yihui Yang, Corinna Harmening, Daniel Czerwonka-Schröder, and Christoph Holst

Yihui Yang

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0646-1073

Chair of Engineering Geodesy, TUM School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstraße 21, 80333 Munich, Germany

Corinna Harmening

Geodetic Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Englerstraße 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Daniel Czerwonka-Schröder

Department of Geodesy, Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Am Hochschulcampus 1, 44801 Bochum, Germany

Christoph Holst

Chair of Engineering Geodesy, TUM School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstraße 21, 80333 Munich, Germany

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