Sep 3, 2015 | Research and releases
Picture above: Preparing to collect terrestrial laser scanning data from old Norway spruce forest. High detail remote sensing technologies, especially laser scanning, and their ability to measure 3D structure of the forest have revolutionized forest mapping and...
Aug 12, 2015 | CoE in media, Research and releases
Land type has an impact on local weather in urban areas, according to the findings of a joint study of CoE, University of Helsinki and Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). The local temperature can vary several degrees and even small pockets of trees, water and...
Jun 5, 2015 | Achievements, Events, Research and releases
Three new doctors are expected in the Centre of Excellence as Ville Kankare (Univ. of Helsinki), Anttoni Jaakkola and Lingli Zhu (FGI) are defending their doctoral dissertations in June: Anttoni Jaakkola’s defense on his doctoral dissertation Low-cost mobile...
Jun 5, 2015 | Achievements, Research and releases
A novel low-cost multi-sensor mobile laser scanning system has been developed at FGI CoE-LaSR by Anttoni Jaakkola. This work is the focus of his Dr. Sc. thesis, presented in the public examination on 5th June 2015 (Press release in Finnish). “The results show that...
Apr 15, 2015 | Research and releases
FGI’s work on benchmarking of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) methods for forestry applications progresses as planned, and new test datasets have been released in February 2015. More than 10 international groups have already downloaded the test data and more...
Apr 3, 2014 | Research and releases
A Tool package matlas_tools is now available at Finnish Geodetic Institute’s Open programs and tools webpage. The tool package interfaces reading and writing functions of LASlib point cloud processing library to access ASPRS .las format and its compressed...
