Nov 24, 2017 | Frontpage, Success Stories
3D precision forestry is one of the main tasks in CoE-LaSR, which the partners have strongly focused on since 2007. During 2014-2016 all major players in forest sector in Finland have taken 3D precision forestry as one of their core development tasks....
Nov 21, 2017 | Frontpage, Success Stories
In laser scanning, intensity value is often recorded for each point – in addition to point cloud x,y,z information. The need for radiometric calibration of the laser scanning intensity stems from the possibility of using calibrated intensity as additional feature for...
Sep 8, 2017 | Frontpage, Success Stories
One of our post doc researchers, Matti Vaaja, has been appointed Assistant Professor at Aalto University’s Department of Built Environment. (1.8.2017-31.7.2022.) This is a great success for the Centre of Excellence as our aim is to boost knowledge based growth...
Oct 12, 2015 | Success Stories
The first mini-UAV (FGI Sensei) including the laser scanner, intensity recording, spectrometer, thermal camera, and conventional digital camera has been developed at FGI in 2009 (see Jaakkola et al. 2010). Recently, the work on the mini-UAV has...
Oct 12, 2015 | Selected Papers, Success Stories
A first realization of a novel pulsed time-of-flight laser radar has been actualized by the CoE Oulu group. What makes the radar unique is that it is based on high speed (FWHM ~100ps) and high energy (~1nJ) optical transmitter pulses produced with a specific laser...
Oct 12, 2015 | Success Stories
The development of time-gated Raman spectrometer system by CoE Oulu group suggest CMOS SPAD based time-gating techniques could pave way to the better use of the high resolving power of Raman spectrometer techniques. Their potential fields of application are in...
