A Review of Mobile Mapping Systems: From Sensors to Applications
Mostafa Elhashash, Hessah Albanwan, Rongjun Qin

TL;DR
This paper provides a comprehensive review of modern mobile mapping systems, covering sensor types, workflows, applications, and future research directions, highlighting technological advances and current challenges.
Contribution
It offers an extensive overview of MMS technologies, sensor combinations, processing workflows, and application areas, along with insights into benefits, challenges, and future research paths.
Findings
Hybrid sensors improve robustness and data quality.
Mobile mapping applications span urban planning, navigation, and GIS.
Recent MMS technologies are increasingly accessible and cost-effective.
Abstract
The evolution of mobile mapping systems (MMSs) has gained more attention in the past few decades. MMSs have been widely used to provide valuable assets in different applications. This has been facilitated by the wide availability of low-cost sensors, the advances in computational resources, the maturity of the mapping algorithms, and the need for accurate and on-demand geographic information system (GIS) data and digital maps. Many MMSs combine hybrid sensors to provide a more informative, robust, and stable solution by complementing each other. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of the modern MMSs by focusing on 1) the types of sensors and platforms, where we discuss their capabilities, limitations, and also provide a comprehensive overview of recent MMS technologies available in the market, 2) highlighting the general workflow to process any MMS data, 3) identifying the…
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Taxonomy
TopicsIndoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Data Management and Algorithms
