This paper presents a comparative study about 3D reconstruction based on active and passive sensors, mainly LiDAR – Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) and raster images (photography), respectively. An accuracy analysis has been performed in the positioning of outcrop point clouds obtained by both techniques. To make the comparison feasible, datasets are composed by point clouds generated from multiple images in different poses using a consumer digital camera and directly by terrestrial laser scanner. After preprocessing stages to obtain these point clouds, both are compared, through the positional discrepancies and standard deviation. A preliminary analysis has been shown the feasible employment of digital image jointly 3D reconstruction method for digital outcrop modeling, concerning with data acquisition at low cost without significantly lost of accuracy when compared with LiDAR.

Revista Brasileira de Cartografia