Lidar Calibration Centre

Lidar Calibration Centre

This paper presents the newly established Lidar Calibration Centre, a distributed infrastructure in Europe, whose goal is to offer services for complete characterization and calibration of lidars and ceilometers. Mobile reference lidars, laboratories for testing and characterization of optics and electronics, facilities for inspection and debugging of instruments, as well as for training in goo...

Alternative Methodologies for LiDAR System Calibration Alternative Methodologies for LiDAR System Calibration

Over the last few years, LiDAR has become a popular technology for the direct acquisition of topographic information. In spite of the increasing utilization of this technology in several applications, its accuracy potential has not been fully explored. Most of current LiDAR calibration techniques are based on empirical and proprietary procedures that demand the system’s raw measurements, which ...

Sensitivity Analysis in a Lidar- Camera Calibration

In this paper, variability analysis was performed on the model calibration methodology between a multi-camera system and a LiDAR laser sensor (Light Detection and Ranging). Both sensors are used to digitize urban environments. A practical and complete methodology is presented to predict the error propagation inside the LiDAR-camera calibration. We perform a sensitivity analysis in a local and g...

Towards Automated Lidar Boresight Self-calibration

This paper focuses on practical aspects when performing boresight calibration in airborne laser scanning using rigorous methodology implemented in LIBOR software. LIBOR technique, introduced by (Skaloud and Lichti, 2006), is based on expressing the boresight calibration parameters within the direct-georeferencing equation separately for each target point and conditioning a group of points to li...

Alternative Methodologies for LiDAR System Calibration