Registration of Laser Scanning Point Clouds: A Review

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 18; no. 5; p. 1641
• Main Authors: Cheng, Liang, Chen, Song, Liu, Xiaoqiang, Xu, Hao, Wu, Yang, Li, Manchun, Chen, Yanming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 21.05.2018; MDPI
• Subjects: Algorithms; Classification; coarse-to-fine strategy; Cultural heritage; Decomposition; Geography; laser scanning; Lasers; Methods; Parameter estimation; point clouds; Registration; Remote sensing; Review; Robotics; Spatial data; China; point clouds; registration; review; laser scanning; coarse-to-fine strategy

The integration of multi-platform, multi-angle, and multi-temporal LiDAR data has become important for geospatial data applications. This paper presents a comprehensive review of LiDAR data registration in the fields of photogrammetry and remote sensing. At present, a coarse-to-fine registration str...