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...
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...
