Interactive Relative Orientation Between Terrestrial Images and Airborne Laser Scanning Data

This paper describes direct interactive relative orientation method between terrestrial digital images and laser scanner data. Traditionally, the orientation between images and 3D data requires interactive work and accurate reference points or visible features. Laser scanning data does not easily allow detection of breaklines or corner points. Due to the huge amount of data, however, it is possible with human intelligence and interactive orientation method to perceive the entity and to register terrestrial images and laser data to each other. The paper describes the basic tools for interactive orientation and contains discussion about the applicability of the method. An example from a test site is depicted in order to demonstrate interactive orientation in a practical situation.