Mobile Laser Scanning Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Three-dimensional data is a fundamental and essential part of a growing number of applications ranging from urban planning, cultural heritage documentation, intelligent transportation systems, autonomous driving, smart cities, to indoor/outdoor disaster simulation. Mobile laser scanning systems (including airborne, vehicle-borne, handheld and backpack systems), which provide geo-referenced high-density 3D point cloud data, have become an alternative powerful data source of 3D geospatial information. This Special Issue not only covers the traditional remaining challenges (multi-sensor calibration, multisource data registration, and 3D point cloud processing) in mobile laser scanning systems, but also focuses on solutions, methods and algorithms for low-cost sensor integration and mobile localization and mapping in GNSS-denied environments.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present the state-of-the-art research and development in mobile laser scanning systems. We would like to invite contributions on the following topics (but it is not limited to them):

• Low-cost mobile laser scanning systems
• Wearble mobile laser scanning systems
• Multi-/hyper-spectral laser scanning systems
• Multi-sensor calibration and data fusion
• Multisource data registration
• Low-cost sensor integration and fusion
• Machine/deep learning approaches to point cloud processing
• Quality evaluation and control of mobile laser scanning data
• 3D object detection and recognition from mobile laser scanning data
• AI-based algorithms for the automated conversion of point clouds into HD maps
• 3D mapping in GNSS-denied environments
• Novel applications of mobile laser scanning systems

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Li
Prof. Dr. Ayman Habib
A/Prof. Chenglu Wen
Guest Editors

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