COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BASED ON SIMULATION FOR THE DESIGN OF LASER TERRESTRIAL MOBILE MAPPING SYSTEMS

Over the past decade, laser terrestrial Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS) have been developing for the digitizing of outdoor environments. While the applications of MMS are various (urban security, road control, virtual world, entertainment, etc.), one may imagine that for each application the system designs could be different. Hence, a comparative analysis of different designs may be useful to find the best solution adapted to each application. We present in this paper a methodology based on the use of a simulator, to compare several designs of MMS and to improve the design. We illustrate it in the case of urban architecture digitizing.