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...
Feb 13, 2015 | Success Stories
FGI has coordinated international benchmarkings of laser scanning data processing methods and mobile laser scanning systems, such as ISPRS/EuroSDR Tree Extraction comparison, EuroSDR Building Extraction, EuroSDR Towards integration of Laser Scanning and Photogrammetry...
Feb 13, 2015 | Success Stories
Under the EuroSDR Commission III “Production Systems and Processes”, a joint test was undertaken in order to compare various methods of building extraction using airborne image and laser scanning data. The study was initiated due to the fast development of sensors and...
Feb 13, 2015 | Success Stories
The Finnish Geodetic Institute coordinated the EuroSDR/ISPRS Tree Extraction project comparing various methods of tree extraction using airborne image and laser scanning data. 12 partners from Germany, Sweden, Canada, Austria, Finland, Norway, Taiwan, USA,...
Feb 13, 2015 | Success Stories
The objective of the EuroSDR Mobile Mapping – Road Environment Mapping using Mobile Laser Scanning project was to evaluate the quality, accuracy, and feasibility of mobile laser scanning (MLS) systems and methods. Prior to this study, there have been only a few...
Feb 11, 2015 | Success Stories
We have been active in initiating several new research areas in the field of laser scanning, such as individual tree inventory (Hyyppä and Inkinen, 1999), forest change detection (Hyyppä, et al. 2003, Yu et al. 2004), and densification of LS point clouds with...
Feb 11, 2015 | Success Stories
Dr. Mikko Vastaranta received his M. Sc. and PhD in Forestry from University of Helsinki (UH) in 2007 and 2012, respectively. Since 2007 he has been part of 4D GeoScientists crew at UH. In five years, he has published more than 50 peer reviewed scientific articles and...
Feb 11, 2015 | Success Stories
Research utilizing the circuit techniques developed at the University of Oulu has been carried out i.e. in the EU-funded Minifaros project, which aimed at opening up the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) market to small and medium-sized...
Feb 8, 2015 | Success Stories
CoE Oulu group director Juha Kostamovaara has been granted an Academy professorship, as a few in Finland, due to his expertise in accurate pulsed time-of-flight circuits and devices with applications in laser ranging. He has been nominated to an academy professor...
Feb 5, 2015 | Success Stories
The Ubiquitous Positioning (UbiPos) group of FGI has developed indoor/outdoor seamless positioning solutions for smartphone-based 3D personal navigation. The 3D-city model brings new 3D navigation experience to mobile users, while the ubiquitous positioning technology...