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    Working Group V/3: "Terrestrial laser scanning and 3D imaging", 2008-2012
  
 

 

Resources and Links

 


Related reference and books:

- On-line TLS bibliography
- Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning, George Vosselman and Hans-Gerd Maas, Whittles Publishing (2010)

Commercial laser scanners (long- and medium- range):

- 3rd Tech
- Callidus
- Faro (iQvolution)
- I-SiTE 4400
- Leica HDS Series
- MDL
- Optech ILRIS-3D
- Riegl Series
- Trimble (Mensi)
- Visi Image
- Zoller+Frohlich
- Surphaser
- Omni
- Topcon

Close-range commercial laser scanners:

- Konica Minolta
- Arius
- Kreon
- Laser Design Inc (LDI)
- Metris
- Metron
- Nextengin
- Roland
- Romer
- Scantech
- ShapeGrabber
- Zcoperation
- Micrometric Vision Technologies

Commercial Software:

- Cyclone
- RapidForm
- PolyWorks
- Cloud cube
- Geomagic
- I-SITE
- JRC Reconstructor
- Kubit
- LFM
- Metrolog XG
- PointCloud Modelling
- Pointtools
- QT scriptor
- Quick Terrain Modeller and Quick Terrain Reader
- TerraSolid
- 3Dipsos
- 3D Reshapher
- VRMesh

Freely available software or libarary:

- ANN (Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searching) by David M. Mount (University of Maryland, USA) and Sunil Arya (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HongKong)
- GML LidarK library by Alexander Velizhev (Moscow State University, Russia)
- Pointshop 3D
- Blender
- Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL)
- Scanalyze
- Meshlab
- SINTEF


Academic Institutions:

- Dresden University of Technology (Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
- Curtin University of Technology (Department of Spatial Sciences)
- University of Calgary (Department of Geomatics Engineering)
- Delft University of Technology (Delft Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems)
- University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, (School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences)
- Universität Hannover (Institut für Kartographie und Geoinformatik)
- International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) (Department of Earth Observation Science)
- Helsinki University of Technology (Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
- ETH (Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry)
- University of Stuttgart (Institute of Photogrammetry)
- Technical University of Vienna (Institute of Photogrammetry)
- University of Vigo (Close Range Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
- University of Valencia (Photogrammetry and Laser Scanning)
- University of Durham (Centre of Terrestrial Laser Scanning)
- Universität Bonn (Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation)
- Technical University of Munich (Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Department of Land surveying and Geo-informatics)
- Wuhan University ( Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS))


Related Groups/Organisations:

- ISPRS Commission V - "Close-Range Sensing: Analysis and Applications"
- Heritage3D.org (English heritage)
- IAEG TLS commission C19
- ISPRS Working Group III / 3 - "Processing of point clouds from laser scanners and other sensors"
- ASTM Committee E57 on 3D Imaging Systems
- ASPRS (American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
- CIPA Heritage Documentation
- FGAN-FOM (Forschungsinstitut für Optronik und Mustererkennung)
- FIG (International Federation of Surveyors)
- FSPRS (Finish Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
- Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography (KSGPC)
- Danish National Survey and Cadastre
- Japan Association of Surveyors
- Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc)
- RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors)


Free Data Sources:

- Additional data for testing can be sourced at the Institut für Kartographie und Geoinformatik Universität Hannover website. These data are managed by Dr Claus Brenner.


Upcoming Conferences of Relevance:

- ASPRS annual conference
- Annual Conference and 100 years celebration of German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation
- Annual Conference of 3D Laser Scanning, Mobile Survey, LIDAR, Dimensional Control, Asset management, BIM/CAD/GIS integration
- Annual International Conference Laser Scanning and digital aerial photography today and tomorrow
- The International LIDAR Mapping Forum>
- IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IGARSS)
- CIPA Symposium Heritage documentation
- FIG Working week and XXXII General Assembly
- CIPA Symposium Heritage documentation


Past Conferences of Relevance:

- ISPRS XXth Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 12 - 23 July 2004 [Proceedings on-line]
- ISPRS Workshop on Laser Scanning, ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands, 12 - 14 September 2005 [Proceedings on-line]
- The 3rd NIST Workshop on the Performance Evaluation of 3D Imaging Systems, March 2-3, 2006 [Proceedings on-line]


Miscellaneous:

- Review of 20 Years of Range Sensor Development, NRC (PDF document)
- Tips for effective use of digital close range photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning


Organisations:

- FIG Commission 6
- IAG Commission 4