Applications of Laser Scanning in Urban Environment
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 12652
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Interests: ground-penetrating radar; close-range photogrammetry; terrestrial laser scanner; cultural heritage applications
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Interests: smart cities; smart infrastructures; mobile mapping; laser scanning; close range photogrammetry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of laser scanning has increased in the last two decades to obtain detailed representations of urban and natural environments. Regarding urban areas, a new generation of LiDAR systems mounted on a vehicle has been presented, called Mobile Mappers or LiDAR Cars, which acquire very dense data quickly and accurately, without disturbing the traffic.
In parallel to the new LiDAR devices, point-cloud-processing techniques have also been improved. Denser and more accurate point clouds have led to the detection of more types of features and more detailed modelling. In addition, the strong emergence of geo-intelligence is contributing to new applications of urban data.
This Special Issue is dedicated to publishing high-quality original research articles, reviews and applications on the use of Mobile Mappers in urban city environments, from a wide-ranging perspective. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Data acquisition: road/street inventory, car/pedestrian safety, road/street maintenance, city mapping, building 3D mapping, transportation infrastructure mapping;
- Point cloud and image processing: geo-intelligence, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, big data;
- Digital city projects: modelling, digital twins, resource optimisation;
- New sensors: multi-sensor, multi-spectral and multi-angular systems; autonomous driving, low-cost devices;
- Reviews of the state of art in Mobile Laser Scanning.
Dr. Henrique Lorenzo
Dr. Pedro Arias-Sánchez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- LiDAR
- Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS)
- Mobile Mappers
- Point cloud processing
- Geo-intelligence
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