| dc.description.abstract | The field of land surveying has been
influenced by the development of modern technology
over the years. Modern instruments have made data
collection faster, easier, and more efficient. The
surveying instruments have been made lightweight,
compact, and user-friendly in the present. Light
Detection & Ranging (LiDAR) is one such
sophisticated technology that has revolutionized the
field of land surveying. However, the affordability of
such sophisticated instruments for surveyors in
developing countries has become an issue. In such
situations, the ability to utilize already available
technology to perform surveying tasks would become
much more helpful. This paper presents the using
LiDAR sensors that are built into smartphones as a
viable option for surveying outer boundaries. The
LiDAR sensors in smartphones are designed to assist
in computer vision tasks such as biometrics and image
enhancement even though the working principle of the
LiDAR sensor remains the same. By using the
assistance of other sensors integrated into the
smartphone and the smartphone camera itself, spatial
data collection can be done. This study compares the
accuracy of the outer boundary survey of smartphone
LiDAR with the surveys done using Total Station (TS).
The results of the study show that the extent generated
from different land plots using smartphone LiDAR has
little variation to the extent generated from the data
collected using Total Station. | en_US |
