Feb 28, 2015 | Selected Papers, Success Stories
Mobile laser scanning is an emerging technology capable of capturing three-dimensional data from surrounding objects. With state-of-the-art sensors, the achieved point clouds capture object details with good accuracy and precision. Many of the applications involve...
Feb 13, 2015 | Success Stories
Today, the standwise forest inventory in Finland is based on airborne laser scanning, the research of which was started by Juha Hyyppä in 1997 in Finland (profiling waveform radar signal of forests studied in 1987-1996). As a result of co-operation of J. Hyyppä and...
Feb 13, 2015 | Success Stories
An increasing number of countries are applying airborne laser scanning (ALS) for national or statewide elevation modeling (e.g. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Germany, US). In Finland, the technology was transferred from research done by...
Feb 13, 2015 | Success Stories
FGI demonstrated in November 2011 the full processing chain from hardware electronics to geometrically correct virtual 3D model in Tapiola region usable in 3D game engine in a smart phone. The demo is downloadable from Google Play store (3D Tapiola). The main...
Feb 13, 2015 | Success Stories
A whole new approach for mobile laser scanning (MLS) was innovated and built to meet the challenges of mobility in marshlands and rugged terrains, but suitable also for narrow city passages and indoors. AKHKA system was designed to be operable by one person as a...
Feb 13, 2015 | Success Stories
The ROAMER mobile laser scanning system has been developed at FGI. It can be seen on top of a vehicle in its up-to-date configuration in the image (left). ROAMER is a high-end surveying device for producing accurate, dense, and precise point clouds for...
