The 360° laserscanner is used primarily on construction sites or for the inside of buildings. The laser scanner stands on a tripod and 3D-scans everything around it (360°).
Inside the 360° laser scanner, a rotating mirror redirects a laser beam in all directions. The laser is reflected off the object’s surfaces around the scanner. The laser scanner detects the reflection, and thus, a point in 3D-space can be determined.
The 360° laser scanner weighs only a few kilograms and can be easily transported and set up. After each 3D scan, the position of the scanner is changed. In a single day, up to one hundred 3D scans are created, which are later merged using software.