LASER SCANNER WITH STEREO CAMERA VISION FOR IMPROVED SELECTIVE FEATURE SCANNING

The present invention relates to a selective laser scanner 1, comprising a target component 4 which can be rotated about two rotation axes 6, 7 and is configured to transmit a distance measuring beam defining a target axis. The selective laser scanner 1 further comprises a distance measuring unit configured to carry out distance measurements by means of the distance measuring beam on cooperative targets or on diffusely scattering targets. The selective laser scanner 1 is equipped with a plurality of overview cameras 2, 3, 21 arranged on the target component 4 offset from the target axis in a fixed positional arrangement with respect to each other having field of views 8, 9 which at least partly overlap each other. The selective laser scanner 1 further comprises a display for displaying an environment image 28 provided by imaging data of at least one of the cameras 2, 3, 21 as well as automatic feature and area detections.