The use of terrestrial laser scanning for mapping bridges on electronic navigational charts

Jacek Łubczonek
ORCID: 0000-0002-9400-3426
Maritime University of Szczecin
Faculty of Navigation
Institute of Geoinformatics
Poland

Abstract

Bridges are one of the most important objects of electronic navigation maps. Presently, multiple sources to create maps, such as basic maps, orthoimages or technical drawings, can be used. Unfortunately, these materials are not always suitable for collecting bridge data. Basic maps do not always present correct shapes of the supports, on orthoimages all land cover elements are subject to radial shifts, relative to the projection centre, and drawings do not have reference points to allow for data registration to the coordinate system.
The paper presents the use of terrestrial laser scanning for mapping bridges, from data collection to acquisition of vector data. The study analyzes the range of scanning performed in day and night conditions, discusses the problems associated with point clouds combination, discusses the process of the project point cloud registration to the coordinate system and the data vectorisation process. Finally, the accuracy of vector data was analysed on the basis of independent measurement control points. The resulting differences between the checkpoints and the vector data with the average value of 4 cm and the maximum value of 8 cm, indicate that the use of this technique for mapping bridges on electronic navigation charts is justified. In the final stage, all the activities related to the acquisition of mapping data and vector data are presented in the form of the workflow diagram.

Received 3.01.2017 Accepted 1.04.2017 Published 30.06.2017

Keywords:

electronic navigational charts; terrestrial laser scanning; map creation

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