<title>Configuration design for sensor integration</title>

Due to the nature of many applications, it is difficult with present technology to use a single type of sensor to automatically, accurately, reliably, and completely measure or map, in three-dimensions, objects, sites, or scenes. Therefore, a combination of various s ensor technologies is usually the obvious s olution. There a re several 3-D technologies, two o f which; digital photogrammetry and triangulation laser scanning, are dealt with in this paper. The final accuracy achieved by the combination of various sensors is a factor of many sensor parameters and the quality of the image coordinate measurements of each sensor. The e ffect of those parameters must be determined to maximize the overall quality within the c onstraints imposed b y the requirements of the a pplication. The parameters affecting the acc uracy of measurement, the test l aboratory, and test results using intensity and range data, are presented. The configuration design of intensity and range sensors is discussed based on the results presented here and in two previous papers.