**5. Simulation of the Calibration**

The configuration of the plane setup has a substantial impact on the quality of the calibration parameters. Therefore, we developed a simulation environment in order to find a plane setup that meets priorly defined quality criteria. For this purpose, we interpret the plane-based calibration as a geodetic network and investigate the parameter estimation process with geodetic quality criteria for both accuracy and controllability (cf. Section 4.3). This strategy is typically applied in geodetic network adjustment [14], but also for, e.g., surface approximation [71], calibration of TLS [77] or measuring arms [78], and VLBI scheduling (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) [79]. Hereinafter, Section 5.1 describes the simulation environment and Section 5.2 analyzes the realized plane setup.
