"The book ... is complete summary for understanding the reconstruction of 3D scenes through the use of point clouds. ... The 'book describes the theoretical background, and compares the performance of the proposed approaches to that of current state-of-the- art techniques.' This book is highly useful to those unfamiliar with laser scanner data gathering including Lidar and would serve as a good first choice to educators teaching about these technologies and processing applications." (Jeff Thurston, 3D Visualization World Magazine, 3dvisworld.com, October, 2016)