Deformation modelling of structures enriched by inter-element continuity condition based on multi-sensor data fusion

Practical applicability of the method was assessed by successful determination of an earth-dam surface settlement variations based on the adaptive fusion of geodetic levelling and geotechnical settlement observations with inter-element continuity constraints. Regarding the observable continuity in the final surface deformation model contour maps also the estimated RMS (0.8 mm) of difference between the deformation observations and their prediction on the check points, the presented method was more successful related to the deformation modelling method based on the single sensor data as well as the multi-sensor data fusion without inter-element continuity constraints.