LiDAR Lab
Contact Person
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Höfle
Geographisches Institut
Im Neuenheim Feld 368
69120 Heidelberg
Tel. +49 6221 54-5594
hoefle@uni-heidelberg.de
Homepage
Equipment
Drone DJI Phantom 3 Advanced
Terrestrial laser scanner (Riegl VZ-400)
SLR (Nikon D300 with 10mm wide-angle lens)
Panasonic Toughbook (CF-F8) for data collection in the field
GNSS RTK Leica GS10/GS15
MS Kinect for Xbox 360, MS Kinect for Xbox One (3D-cameras)
Software and Tools
HELIOS (Heidelberg LiDAR Operations Simulator): Interactive laser scanning simulation Framework
VOSTOK (Voxel Octree Solar Toolkit): Three-dimensional modelling of incoming solar Radiation
3D-Micromapping: Web-based capturing of user-generated information for large point cloud datasets
3D Geodatabases for management and fast access to big remote sensing datasets (incl. point Clouds)
Methods
Geographic Remote Sensing: Development of novel methods to analyze satellite and aerial images of passive and active sensors
High-precision 3D capturing of the landscape
3D capturing of natural features (in outdoor and indoor environments, e.g., caves)
Analysis of natural processes from multitemporal 3D geodata (4D data)
Development of algorithms for point cloud processing and analysis
3D-Micromapping: Combining automatic algorithms with user-generated information (i.e. crowdsourcing)
Multi-source 3D geoinformation extraction
Fusion of 3D geodata from different sensors (e.g., LiDAR, MS Kinect, close-range photogrammetry)
Geographic remote sensing methods (e.g., satellite and airborne active and passive images)
Responsible:
Email
Latest Revision:
2017-11-28
