Terrestrial Laser Scanning and 3d Modeling of A Wind Turbine Generator

Reverse engineering growing trend, particularly in the domain of civil engineering, additionally focused on renewable energy resources, actively follows technological improvements of measuring instruments, as well as processing software solutions, both necessary for an accurate objects’ survey. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and photogrammetric methods are contemporary standard for obtaining very accurate point cloud data, as a base for technical documentation, creation of 3D virtual prototypes and their animation, 3D printing, geometry inspection, loads, insolation or other analyzes. This paper presents results of geometric analysis of wind turbine tower, its 3D modeling with anima-tion, based on TLS and photogrammetric data, obtained during 2018 at Alibunar in Serbia.