Monitoring Deformations Of A Wooden Church Tower By Laser Scanning
Linh Hong (TU Delft - Optical and Laser Remote Sensing)
RC Lindenbergh (TU Delft - Optical and Laser Remote Sensing)
Pieter Woudenberg (Student TU Delft)
Wolfgang Gard (TU Delft - Bio-based Structures & Materials)
J. W. van de Kuilen (Technische Universität München, TU Delft - Bio-based Structures & Materials)
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Abstract
Churches are part of heritage structures that take an important role in Europe ́s cultural identity. As such, these structures must be protected to prevent catastrophic collapse and any damage must be reported timely to establish planning to maintenance and restoration. This can be achievable when the churches are monitored periodically with regular intervals. However, this monitoring strategy has not been available in most of the Europe’s churches for a number of reasons, complexity of the structures and limited budget are just two of them. Laser scanning has been widely used in capturing rich three-dimensional (3D) topographic data of visible surfaces of a structure with high accuracy. This paper presents a methodology to determine the shape and possible deviation from verticality of the church’s tower for monitoring deformation using a terrestrial laser scanner. The 500-year old wooden tower of St. Bavo Church in Haarlem, Netherlands is selected as a case study. First, point clouds of the tower captured from different views are registered into the same coordinate system. Second, a RANSAC method is employed to extract point clouds of a whole façades of the tower. Next, a point and surface-based method is proposed to compute the deformation of the surface from its data points. The results indicate that there is slightly different deformation between the tower facades in the same story and in neighbour stories. Moreover, the maximum total relative deformation at Story 7 of the tower by 0.63m.