Mobile mapping system and computing methods for modelling of road environment

Abstract

Mobile mapping is a new way of efficiently collecting three-dimensional data from the road environment. Mobile mapping systems are cost efficient and robust technique to acquire information about even highly dynamic environments like highways and urban streets, where the data collection has previously been laborious and even dangerous for the staff performing the surveying. The dynamic mobile mapping systems could access the site with less risk to the personnel and with less need for road closures. The need for high resolution and details captured in to the data for street and road inventories, or city modelling, are the main reasons for the rapid adoption of the mobile mapping techniques in these fields.