LiDAR-Based Building Information Modeling: Recent Progress and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been widely recognized as a key element for digitalization in architecture, engineering, and construction, as it offers innovative approaches for higher productivity and efficiency at different stages of a building and infrastructure development project, from planning to maintenance and operation. BIM also enables more transparency in management, and greater intelligence in the decision-making process, as well as increased collaboration among various stakeholders during the whole life-cycle of buildings, facilities and infrastructures.

With the rapid advancement of remote sensing and reality-capturing technologies, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has emerged as one of the most rapid, precise, and versatile 3D measurement technologies. This technology enables the capture of 3D representations of surrounding environments and objects as a 3D point cloud map or a 3D mesh model with high accuracy and completeness under challenging light and weather conditions. In BIM, LiDAR facilitates the efficient generation of detailed 3D models of buildings, facilities, infrastructure, and other structures (e.g., bridges and utilities). Therefore, it offers the potential to obtain an up-to-date BIM model system, which combines the 3D models of building components and their functional product information. These models are essential for many applications, such as urban growth monitoring and planning, facility management and energy efficiency, as well as emergency response and disaster prevention.

This Special Issue aims to collate papers on the state of the art of LiDAR-based BIM research including, but not limited to, LiDAR data analysis and data fusion in building detection and 3D building reconstruction, rooftop modeling and building boundary extraction,  and change detection for BIM-based applications (e.g., urban growth monitoring, land use/land cover (LULC) mappings, navigation, emergency response, etc.).

Dr. Ha Tran
Dr. Jesús Balado Frías
Dr. Maarten Bassier
Guest Editors

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• LiDAR
• laser scanning
• point cloud modeling and analysis
• Building Information Modelling (BIM)
• digital terrain models (DTM)
• geographic mapping
• semantic segmentation
• 3D reconstruction
• object extraction
• deep learning
• data fusion
• UAV/UAS