Aug 4, 2023 | Frontpage, Research and releases, Success Stories
The research teams of the National Land Survey of Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Institute have studied the future of Antarctic snow and ice in the LAS3R project. The project is special in the way that it investigates new methods for determining snow surface...
Mar 11, 2022 | Frontpage, Success Stories
A year ago, the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute of the National Land Survey of Finland added a new laser scanning sensor to its comprehensive equipment selection. What makes this sensor special is that the wavelength used enables surveying underwater, and it can...
Mar 11, 2022 | Frontpage, Success Stories
The CoE-LaSR has brought advances in technology, for example, new electronics for laser scanning, new laser scanning methods and systems, and new developments of the backpack laser scanner for mobile surveying. The CoE-LaSR researchers also developed and tested...
Sep 23, 2021 | Frontpage, Success Stories
Szabolcs Lőrincz is a 23-year old scientist from Transylvania. He recently defended his master’s thesis at Aalto University, which he completed working at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI, Autonomous Mapping and Driving research group. You can watch...
May 8, 2020 | Frontpage, Success Stories
Laser scanning scientists at work in the field. Picture: Juha Hyyppä The scientific achievements of the Centre of Excellence in Laser Scanning Research (CoE-LaSR) have produced plenty of benefits with far reaching impact both commercially and societally. The CoE-LaSR...
Dec 10, 2019 | Frontpage, Selected Papers, Success Stories
An increasing number of services that are becoming commonplace in people’s daily lives need up-to-date and reliable location information – that is, the most accurate updated map. A recently published study suggests for the first time how the latest digital remote...
Jun 3, 2019 | Achievements, CoE in media, Research and releases
Our researcher Samuli Junttila’s dissertation Utilizing multispectral lidar in the detection of declined trees has been published and popularized as a music video. The main objective of Junttila’s thesis was to investigate the capabilities of multispectral terrestrial...
Feb 7, 2019 | Achievements, CoE in media, Uncategorized
Laser scanning technology and expertise are needed in space. In recent American Surveyor article FINESSE Exploration Strategies using High-Resolution LiDAR Surveying LiDAR instruments and surveying techniques are considered integral tools in the future exploration of...
Sep 4, 2018 | Achievements, Research and releases, Selected Papers
The potential of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) in forest applications, both in industry and in national forest inventories (NFIs), has gained increasing awareness in the last two decades. Boosting this development, there has been tremendous research efforts and...
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....
