Method to retrieve stem volume
In the boreal forest zone and in many forest areas, there exist gaps between the forest crowns. For example, in Finland, more than 30% of the first pulse data of laser scanning reflect directly from the ground without any interaction with the canopy. By increasing the...
CMOS Time-to-Digital Converter
A multichannel time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented with 0.35-μm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology that uses a low-frequency crystal as reference and measures the time intervals with counter and delay line interpolation techniques is described....
Simo Poso prize 2011-2012 to Topi Tanhuanpää
Topi Tanhuanpää from the University of Helsinki 4D GeoScientists group has been awarded the Simo Poso prize for the best M.Sc. Thesis in Forest Sciences in 2011-2012. The award was given in March 2013 by the Finnish Society of Forest Sciences' Taksaattorikilta. The...
The Talbert Abrams Award 2011 to FGI reserarchers
The Talbert Abrams award First Honorable Mention was given to the FGI researchers Eija Honkavaara, Jouni Peltoniemi, Eero Ahokas, Risto Kuittinen, Juha Hyyppa, Anttoni Jaakkola, Harri Kaartinen, Lauri Markelin, Kimmo Nurminen, and Juha Suomalainen. The Award selection...
Juho-Pekka Virtanen (AU) wins 1st prize in “From bytes to atoms” – rapid prototyping design competition
Juho-Pekka Virtanen from Aalto University has won the first prize in “From bytes to atoms” - rapid prototyping design competition organized by Sovelto and FIRPA for work "Filigraani". Read more (in Finnish)
Top cited papers
Several most-cited publications have been published by the CoE-LaSR consortium. Detecting and estimating attributes for single trees using laser scanner by J. Hyyppä and M. Inkinen is an all-time most-cited paper of The Photogrammetric Journal of...
MDPI Remote Sensing Best Paper award 2013
MDPI Remote Sensing Best Paper award 2013 was given to an article of the team of FGI researches: Sanna Kaasalainen, Anssi Krooks, Antero Kukko and Harri Kaartinen. Radiometric Calibration of Terrestrial Laser Scanners with External Reference Targets Remote Sens. 2009,...
Juha Hyyppä to give a keynote speech in Magnus Wallenberg Prize Symposium
Juha Hyyppä was granted and gave a keynote speech in Magnus Wallenberg Prize Symposium 2011 thanks to his merits in laser scanning and forests.
Innovation award 2010
Finnish forest mensurationists granted Juha Hyyppä and Matti Maltamo the first Innovation Award for making laser scanning into practice through research.