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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-1-W1-2023-395-2023</article-id>
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<article-title>TARGETLESS REGISTRATION METHODS BETWEEN UAV LIDAR AND WEARABLE MMS POINT CLOUDS</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Perfetti</surname>
<given-names>L.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8920-7686</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Vassena</surname>
<given-names>G. P. M.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2249-8853</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fassi</surname>
<given-names>F.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sgrenzaroli</surname>
<given-names>M.</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>DICATAM, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Territory, Environment and Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>ABC, Architecture, Built environment and Construction engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Gexcel.srl, Brescia, Italy</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>25</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2023</year>
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<volume>XLVIII-1/W1-2023</volume>
<fpage>395</fpage>
<lpage>402</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2023 L. Perfetti et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2023</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>&lt;p&gt;Fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and wearable or portable Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS) are two widely used platforms for point cloud acquisition with Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) sensors. The two platforms acquire from distant viewpoints and produce complementary point clouds, one describing predominantly horizontal surfaces and the other primarily vertical. Thus, the registration of the two data is not straightforward. This paper presents a test of targetless registration between a UAV LiDAR point cloud and terrestrial MMS surveys. The case study is a vegetated hilly landscape characterized by the presence of a structure of interest; the UAV acquisition allows the entire area to be acquired from above, while the terrestrial MMS acquisitions will enable the construction of interest to be detailed. The paper describes the survey phase with both techniques. It focuses on processing and registration strategies to fuse the two data together.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our approach is based on the ICP (Iterative Closest Point) method by exploiting the data processing algorithms available in the Heron Desktop post-processing software for handling data acquired with the Heron Backpack MMS instrument. Two co-registration methods are compared. Both ways use the UAV point cloud as a reference and derive the registration of the terrestrial MMS data by finding ICP matches between the ground acquisition and the reference cloud exploiting only a few areas of overlap. The two methods are detailed in the paper, and both allow us to complete the co-registration task.&lt;/p&gt;</p>
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