Glossary
Terrestrial Laser Scanners. Some Clouds for the Geomatic

BIM (intelligent building model); Building Information Modeling

Digital mock-up of a building, enabling the various parties involved (planner, builder and operator) to access the information they need at any time.

Phase difference; Phase shift method

Electronic distance measurement technique based on the difference between the modulated wave emitted and that reflected by an object.

ICP (association of points by nearest neighbor criteria); Iterative Closest Point

A method for assembling point clouds by iterative calculation that minimizes the distances between points in 2 3D rasters.

Mesh; mesh

Method of modeling a 3D semi-point using triangular facets to form a surface.

SLAM(localisation et...