TY - JOUR
T1 - Biased and unbiased estimates based on laser scans of surfaces with unknown deformations
AU - Holst, Christoph
AU - Artz, Thomas
AU - Kuhlmann, Heiner
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston 2014.
PY - 2014/9/1
Y1 - 2014/9/1
N2 - The estimates based on laser scans of surfaces with unknown deformations are biased and not reproducible when changing the scanning geometry. While the existence of a bias is only disadvantageous at some applications, non-reproducible estimates are never desired. Hence, this varying bias and its origin need to be investigated - since this situation has not been examined sufficiently in the literature. Analyzing this situation, the dependence of the estimation on the network configuration is highlighted: the network configuration - studied similarly to geodetic networks - rules about the impact of the deformation. As pointed out, this impact can be altered by manipulating the network configuration. Therefore, several strategies are proposed. These include manipulations of the leastsquares adjustment as well as robust estimation. It is revealed that the reproducibility of the estimates can indeed be significantly increased by some of the proposed leastsquares manipulations. However, the bias can only be significantly reduced by robust estimation.
AB - The estimates based on laser scans of surfaces with unknown deformations are biased and not reproducible when changing the scanning geometry. While the existence of a bias is only disadvantageous at some applications, non-reproducible estimates are never desired. Hence, this varying bias and its origin need to be investigated - since this situation has not been examined sufficiently in the literature. Analyzing this situation, the dependence of the estimation on the network configuration is highlighted: the network configuration - studied similarly to geodetic networks - rules about the impact of the deformation. As pointed out, this impact can be altered by manipulating the network configuration. Therefore, several strategies are proposed. These include manipulations of the leastsquares adjustment as well as robust estimation. It is revealed that the reproducibility of the estimates can indeed be significantly increased by some of the proposed leastsquares manipulations. However, the bias can only be significantly reduced by robust estimation.
KW - bias
KW - deformation
KW - laser scanning
KW - network configuration
KW - partial redundancies
KW - surface approximation
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U2 - 10.1515/jag-2014-0006
DO - 10.1515/jag-2014-0006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84908221070
SN - 1862-9016
VL - 8
SP - 169
EP - 183
JO - Journal of Applied Geodesy
JF - Journal of Applied Geodesy
IS - 3
ER -