In the article in is shown that laser scanning, taking info account information about tectonic cracks, spots it forestoky of the researched regions allow to estimafe different variants of a track and choose optimal one for the given data.
(2011) Geodetic survey features of «Sakhalin - Khabarovsk - Vladivostok» gas pipeline linear area. Geodesy and cartography = Geodezia i Kartografia, 72(1), pp. 9-12. (In Russian).