“…When TLS laser scanners were introduced on the market, their performances were rather poor, having in general a measurement uncertainty in the range of centimeters. However, with the progressive improvement of technology and the consequent increase in the measurement precision, the potential range of purposes has been widened from some meters to hundreds of meters in forensics [ 1 ], forestry [ 2 ], environment [ 3 , 4 ] geology [ 5 ], structure analysis [ 6 , 7 ], ship building [ 8 ] and archaeological applications [ 9 , 10 ]. A complete overview of the TLS technology and processing methods, as well as applications, is presented in Volsseman and Maas [ 11 ].…”