Reality capture with a laser scanner and a camera

A monitoring device for detecting an object within an infrastructure, of a building or facility, more particularly an area that is frequently exposed to people and/or vehicles passing through, comprising:

• a 3D camera for generating a three-dimensional point cloud of the infrastructure,
• a visual imaging camera, particularly two visual imaging cameras having different viewing directions from each other, wherein each of the two visual imaging cameras has a field of view of at least 180 degrees, and the two visual cameras are circumferentially arranged around the laser scanner,
• a thermal imaging camera, particularly four thermal imaging cameras having different viewing directions from each other, wherein each of the four thermal imaging cameras has a field of view of at least 80 degrees, and the four thermal imaging cameras are circumferentially arranged around the laser scanner, and
• a, wireless and/or wired, data interface configured to provide a data stream comprising data from the 3D camera and image data of the visual and thermal imaging cameras to a separate receiving device.

The monitoring device for detecting an object within an infrastructure, particularly a building or facility, more particularly an area that is frequently exposed to people and/or vehicles passing through, comprising:

• a laser scanner configured to carry out a scanning movement of a laser measurement beam relative to two rotation axes, and, based thereof, to generate light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data for generating a three-dimensional point cloud of the infrastructure,
• two visual imaging cameras having different viewing directions from each other, wherein each of the two visual imaging cameras has a field of view of at least 180 degrees, and the two visual cameras are circumferentially arranged around the laser scanner,
• four thermal imaging cameras having different viewing directions from each other, wherein each of the four thermal imaging cameras has a field of view of at least 80 degrees, and the four thermal imaging cameras are circumferentially arranged around the laser scanner, and
• a wireless or wired data interface configured to provide a data stream comprising LIDAR data and image data of the visual and thermal imaging cameras to a separate receiving device, wherein the monitoring device comprises a high dynamic range (HDR) camera, a single exposure HDR camera, a multispectral camera, a hyperspectral camera, and/or a 3D camera arrangement.