Mobile Mapping Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Mobile mapping technologies have seen a rapid growth of research activity and interest in the last years, due to the increased demand for accurate, dense and geo-referenced 3D data. Their main characteristic is the ability to acquire 3D information for large areas dynamically. This versatility has expanded their application fields from civil engineering to a broad range of fields (industry, emergency response, cultural heritage...), which is still widening. This increased number of needs, some of them especially challenging, is pushing the scientific community, as well as companies, to propose innovative solutions, ranging from new hardware/open source software approaches and integration with other devices, to the adoption and development of artificial intelligence methods for the automatic extraction of salient features and quality assessments for performance verification

The aim of the present Special Issue is to cover the relevant topics and trends in mobile mapping technology, and also to introduce the new tendencies of this new paradigm in geospatial science.

We would like to invite you to contribute by submitting articles describing your recent research, experimental work, reviews and/or case studies related to the field of mobile mapping. Contributions may be from, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Sensor design and platform developments.
• Geometric calibration.
• Radiometry: calibration and texturing.
• Multi-source data fusion.
• Hybridization with other data sources.
• Simultaneous localization and mapping.
• Low-cost solutions.
• Portable mobile mapping systems.
• Point cloud processing.
• Feature extraction.
• Machine learning.
• Deep learning.
• Accuracy, precision and quality assessment.
• Verification and validation.
• Indoor mapping and navigation.
• Autonomous navigation.
• GNSS-denied environments.
• Urban analysis.
• Forest mapping.
• Post-disaster assessment.
• Novel application cases.

Dr. Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez
Dr. Erica Nocerino
Dr. Isabella Toschi
Prof. Dr. Kai-Wei Chiang
Guest Editors

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