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Therefore, a high-speed, low-cost, and high-accuracy method for obtaining the topography of the joint surfaces is necessary. In this paper, a smartphone structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetric solution for measuring rock joint surfaces is presented and evaluated. Image datasets of two rock joint specimens were taken under two different modes by using an iPhone 6s, a Pixel 2, and a T329t and subsequently processed through SfM-based software to obtain 3D models. The technique for measuring rock joint surfaces was evaluated using the root mean square error (RMSE) of the cloud-to-cloud distance and the mean error of the joint roughness coefficient (JRC). The results show that the RMSEs by using the iPhone 6s and Pixel 2 are both less than 0.08 mm. The mean errors of the JRC are \u22127.54 and \u22125.27% with point intervals of 0.25 and 1.0 mm, respectively. The smartphone SfM photogrammetric method has comparable accuracy to a 3D laser scanner approach for reconstructing laboratory-sized rock joint surfaces, and it has the potential to become a popular method for measuring rock joint surfaces.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21030922","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,30]],"date-time":"2021-01-30T06:22:20Z","timestamp":1611987740000},"page":"922","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":57,"title":["Measurement of Rock Joint Surfaces by Using Smartphone Structure from Motion (SfM) Photogrammetry"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Pengju","family":"An","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8866-4076","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kun","family":"Fang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}]},{"given":"Qiangqiang","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wuhan Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd., China Coal Technology &amp; Engineering Group Corp, Wuhan 430064, China"}]},{"given":"Haihua","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Technical Research &amp; Development Institute, Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd., Ibaraki 3002651, Japan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1113-8465","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"709","article-title":"Surface roughness evolution and mechanical behavior of rock joints under shear","volume":"34","author":"Kwasniewski","year":"1997","journal-title":"Int. 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