Development and Initial Assessment of a Low Cost Mobile Mapping System

Mobile mapping system have been used in a wide range of applications during the last decades, most of the times with the goal of quickly and quite reliably acquiring georeferenced spatial information of relatively large areas of interest. Indeed, such kind of systems are often preferred to static surveying techniques when dealing with relatively large areas, where static approaches would require very long surveys. Terrestrial mobile mapping systems are composed by a positioning and mapping system, which is typically mounted on a terrestrial vehicle, such as a car. The use of such systems can be limited by (i) possible restrictions on the area of interest, which might be not well suited for the use of such vehicles, and (ii) by their quite high costs, mostly related to the use of expensive sensors in order to ensure high accuracy and reliability of the acquired geospatial information.