Abstract
Adoption of 3D imaging systems is on the rise, with the global market expected to exceed $450 million by 2016. As the claimed performance approaches that of tactile probing systems, an increasing number of users are expected to invest in high-accuracy and high-speed noncontact systems, particularly as the cost of these noncontact systems continues to decrease significantly. To address the lack of published standards for 3D imaging systems, the 4 THE JOURNAL OF THE CMSC/AUTUMN 2014 National Research Council of Canada (NRCC) has been working closely with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the ASTM E57 committee to develop two standards to evaluate the performance of medium-range (2 meter to 150 meter) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems. In this article we present an overview of work completed to date by the WK12373 (relative range error) and WK431218 (volumetric error) working groups and, in
Also published as CMS-2014-003, CMSC 2014, North Charleston, SC.
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David MacKinnon, Luc Cournoyer. National Research Council of Canada, Measurement Science and Standards. The Journal of the CMSC, Volume 9, Number 2, Autumn 2014. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMSJ-09-2-01.