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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 June 2024 | Viewed by 6811

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Henrique Lorenzo

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Close-Range Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Group, University of Vigo, EUET Forestal, Campus A Xunqueira s/n, 36005 Pontevedra, Spain
Interests: ground-penetrating radar; close-range photogrammetry; terrestrial laser scanner; cultural heritage applications
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Dr. Pedro Arias-Sánchez

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Applied Geotechnologies Group, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Mining Engineering, University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
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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Classification of Large-Scale Mobile Laser Scanning Data in Urban Area with LightGBM
by Eray Sevgen and Saygin Abdikan
Remote Sens. 2023, 15(15), 3787; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15153787 - 30 Jul 2023
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Automatic point cloud classification (PCC) is a challenging task in large-scale urban point clouds due to the heterogeneous density of points, the high number of points and the incomplete set of objects. Although recent PCC studies rely on automatic feature extraction through deep [...] Read more.
Automatic point cloud classification (PCC) is a challenging task in large-scale urban point clouds due to the heterogeneous density of points, the high number of points and the incomplete set of objects. Although recent PCC studies rely on automatic feature extraction through deep learning (DL), there is still a gap for traditional machine learning (ML) models with hand-crafted features, particularly after emerging gradient boosting machine (GBM) methods. In this study, we are using the traditional ML framework for the problem of PCC in large-scale datasets following the steps of neighborhood definition, multi-scale feature extraction, and classification. Different from others, our framework takes advantage of the fast feature calculation with multi-scale radius neighborhood and a recent state-of-the-art GBM classifier, LightGBM. We tested our framework using three mobile urban datasets, Paris–Rau–Madame, Paris–Rue–Cassette and Toronto3D. According to the results, our framework outperforms traditional machine learning models and competes with DL-based methods. Full article
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Laser Scanning for Terrain Analysis and Route Design for Electrified Public Transport in Urban Areas
by María Sánchez-Aparicio, Jose Antonio Martín-Jiménez, Enrique González-González and Susana Lagüela
Remote Sens. 2023, 15(13), 3325; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15133325 - 29 Jun 2023
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The orography of the terrain is a key factor for the electrification of vehicles, especially regarding public transport and electric buses. This work deals with the analysis of the use of mobile laser scanning, both terrestrial and aerial, for the evaluation of the [...] Read more.
The orography of the terrain is a key factor for the electrification of vehicles, especially regarding public transport and electric buses. This work deals with the analysis of the use of mobile laser scanning, both terrestrial and aerial, for the evaluation of the orography of urban areas. First, the minimum point density required is evaluated to estimate the slope. The results show that point densities of 1 point/m2, measured with aerial laser scanning, are adequate for the task. Based on this, the design of a route for public transport is presented including the requirements concerning key transit points, maximum slope, and others. Based on the proposed route design, the transformation to an electrified route is analyzed from an economic and environmental point of view. The results show that the implementation of electric buses vs. diesel buses in cities with steep slopes (up to 7%) reduces greenhouse gas emissions (32.59%) as well as economic costs (18.10%). Full article
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Disturbance Analysis in the Classification of Objects Obtained from Urban LiDAR Point Clouds with Convolutional Neural Networks
by Jesús Balado, Pedro Arias, Henrique Lorenzo and Adrián Meijide-Rodríguez
Remote Sens. 2021, 13(11), 2135; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112135 - 28 May 2021
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Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) systems have proven their usefulness in the rapid and accurate acquisition of the urban environment. From the generated point clouds, street furniture can be extracted and classified without manual intervention. However, this process of acquisition and classification is not [...] Read more.
Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) systems have proven their usefulness in the rapid and accurate acquisition of the urban environment. From the generated point clouds, street furniture can be extracted and classified without manual intervention. However, this process of acquisition and classification is not error-free, caused mainly by disturbances. This paper analyses the effect of three disturbances (point density variation, ambient noise, and occlusions) on the classification of urban objects in point clouds. From point clouds acquired in real case studies, synthetic disturbances are generated and added. The point density reduction is generated by downsampling in a voxel-wise distribution. The ambient noise is generated as random points within the bounding box of the object, and the occlusion is generated by eliminating points contained in a sphere. Samples with disturbances are classified by a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The results showed different behaviours for each disturbance: density reduction affected objects depending on the object shape and dimensions, ambient noise depending on the volume of the object, while occlusions depended on their size and location. Finally, the CNN was re-trained with a percentage of synthetic samples with disturbances. An improvement in the performance of 10–40% was reported except for occlusions with a radius larger than 1 m. Full article
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Field Verification of Vehicle-Mounted All-Fiber Coherent Wind Measurement Lidar Based on Four-Beam Vertical Azimuth Display Scanning
by Xiaojie Zhang, Qingsong Li, Yujie Wang, Jing Fang and Yuefeng Zhao
Remote Sens. 2023, 15(13), 3377; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15133377 - 01 Jul 2023
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Wind parameters play a vital role in studying atmospheric dynamics and climate change. In this study, a vehicle-mounted coherent wind measurement Lidar (CWML) with a wavelength of 1.55 µm is demonstrated based on a four-beam vertical azimuth display (VAD) scanning mode, and a [...] Read more.
Wind parameters play a vital role in studying atmospheric dynamics and climate change. In this study, a vehicle-mounted coherent wind measurement Lidar (CWML) with a wavelength of 1.55 µm is demonstrated based on a four-beam vertical azimuth display (VAD) scanning mode, and a method to estimate wind vector from power spectrum is proposed. The feasibility of the application of wind profile Lidar in vehicles is verified by calibration tests, comparison experiments, and continuous observation experiments, successively. The effective detection height of Lidar can reach 3 km. In contrasting experiments, the correlation coefficients of the magnitude and direction of horizontal wind speed measured by vehicle-mounted Lidar and fixed Lidar are 0.94 and 0.91, respectively. The experimental results reveal that the accuracies of wind speed and direction measurements with the vehicle-mounted CWML are better than 0.58 m/s and 4.20°, respectively. Furthermore, to understand the role of the wind field in the process of energy and material transport further, a proton-transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer (PTR-TOF-MS) is utilized to measure the concentration of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Relevant experimental results indicate that the local meteorological conditions, including wind speed and humidity, influence the VOC concentrations. Full article
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