Monitoring the Deformation of the Facade of a Building Based on Terrestrial Laser Point-Cloud

When terrestrial laser point-cloud data are employed for monitoring the façade of a building, point-cloud data collected in different phases cannot be used directly to calculate the deforming displacement due to data points in a homogeneous region caused by inhomogeneous sampling. Aiming at this problem, a triangular patch is built for the previous point-cloud data, the distance is measured between the latter point-cloud data and the former patch in the homogeneous region, and thus the distance of the deforming displacement is determined. On this basis, the software of laser point-cloud monitoring analysis is developed and three series of experiments are designed to verify the effectiveness of the method.