Investigation and calibration of pulsed time-of-flight terrestrial laser scanners

This thesis has two aims. The first one is the investigation and analysis of the errors occurring in the measurements with pulsed time-of-flight (TOF) terrestrial laser scanners (TLS). A good under ...

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