Lidarometry as a Variant of Integration of Photogrammetric and Laser Scanning Data

This publication aim is discussing the issue of lidarometry – a stereoscopic point cloud display for measurement purposes. The authors state that lidarometry constitutes a valuable variant of integration for photogrammetric and scanning data. A point cloud in lidarometry may be subject to stereoscopic observation and measurement to perform vectorization identically as in photogrammetry. Apart from 3D point cloud display enabled by several programmes in the world, the authors describe the method of synthetic stereograms generation using the artificial image pair sampling, Such solution presents an additional aspect of scanning and photogrammetric data integration and enables thorough analysis of the method. In this publication, the authors describe the genesis and variants of lidarometry. The authors determine the relation of lidarometric measurements accuracy to conventional stereophotogrammetric measurement accuracy. They also provide the optimum point cloud resolution for stereo measurements to terrain pixels size of the measured photograms.