It is estimated that over 80% of the world’s oceans are unexplored and unmapped limiting our understanding of ocean systems. Due to data collection rates of modern survey technologies such as swathe multibeam echosounders (MBES) and initiatives such as Seabed 2030, there is ever-increasing increasing volume of seafloor data collected. These large data volumes present significant challenges ar…
Real-time semantic segmentation of point clouds has increasing importance in applications related to 3D city modelling and mapping, automated inventory of forests, autonomous driving and mobile robotics. Current state-of-the-art point cloud semantic segmentation methods rely heavily on the availability of 3D laser scanning data. This is problematic in regards of low-latency, real-time applicati…
This paper introduces methods for monitoring rock slope movements in Alpine environments based on terrestrial images. The first method is a photogrammtric point cloud-based deformation analysis, relying on M3C2. Although effective in identifying large changes, the method has a tendency to underestimate smaller-scale movements. A feature-based method is presented to address this limitation, usin…
In the view of climate change, understanding and managing effects on coastal areas and adjacent cities is essential. Permanent Laser Scanning (PLS) is a successful technique to not only observe notably sandy coasts incidentally or once every year, but (nearly) continuously over extended periods of time. The collected point cloud observations form a 4D point cloud data set representing the evolu…
The ATLAS sensor onboard the ICESat-2 satellite is a photon-counting lidar (PCL) with a primary mission to map Earth's ice sheets. A secondary goal of the mission is to provide vegetation and terrain elevations, which are essential for calculating the planet's biomass carbon reserves. A drawback of ATLAS is that the sensor does not provide reliable terrain height estimates in dense, high-closur…
Tree species characterise biodiversity, health, economic potential, and resilience of an ecosystem, for example. Tree species classification based on remote sensing data, however, is known to be a challenging task. In this paper, we study for the first time the feasibility of tree species classification using high-density point clouds collected with an airborne close-range multispectral laser s…
Change detection from traditional 2D optical images has limited capability to model the changes in the height or shape of objects. Change detection using 3D point cloud from photogrammetry or LiDAR surveying can fill this gap by providing critical depth information. While most existing machine learning based 3D point cloud change detection methods are supervised, they severely depend on the ava…
Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud registration is a fundamental step for many 3D modeling and mapping applications. Existing approaches are highly disparate in the data source, scene complexity, and application, therefore the current practices in various point cloud registration tasks are still ad-hoc processes. Recent advances in computer vision and deep learning have shown promising performa…
Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud registration is a fundamental step for many 3D modeling and mapping applications. Existing approaches are highly disparate in the data source, scene complexity, and application, therefore the current practices in various point cloud registration tasks are still ad-hoc processes. Recent advances in computer vision and deep learning have shown promising performa…
Emerging mobile LiDAR mapping systems exhibit great potential as an alternative for mapping urban environments. Such systems can acquire high-quality, dense point clouds that capture detailed information over an area of interest through efficient field surveys. However, automatically recognizing and semantically segmenting different components from the point clouds with efficiency and high accu…