How could BIM support the digital building permit process in the Netherlands?

The building permit process in the Netherlands is mostly digitalized, however, there are still some issues. A downsize of information, the manual checking from the municipality, and the duration of the process are some of these issues. To overcome these issues information between 3D building design models, so-called Building Information Modeling...

Procedural Modelling of Tree Growth Using Multi-temporal Point Clouds

A digital reconstruction of real-life trees could provide many benefits in fields such as botany, forestry management, biology, and urban planning. Plant growth modelling in particular would enable the analysis of plant structure and behaviour in a customizable, widely applicable and non-destructive manner. Although many data-driven plant...

Integrated modeling of utility networks in the urban environment

In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the need for 3D spatial information, particularly 3D models representing the geographic information of the urban environment. The existence of a comprehensive integrated 3D model representing the condition of the underground utility networks in accordance with the above-ground city objects...

Towards the linking of geospatial government data: A study on the semantic harmonisation between data from Dutch geo-registries

The growing complexity of many projects and applications require methods that help integrate vasts amounts of data coming from different sources. In all cases, semantic interoperability plays an important role - the meaning of content should be organized logically, as to allow machines to interpret it. The Semantic Web vision has been developing...

Influence of 3D City Layout on Air Quality

In 2021, noise pollution monitoring will be mandatory in the Netherlands, which requires data on traffic that can be re-used for air quality estimation models. One of the important input parameters for the latter is the street type, which is required by the dilution parametrisation used within the air quality model.<br/>The goal of this project...

Creating the medial axis transform for billions of lidar points using a memory efficient method

Using Light Detection And Radar (LiDAR) large parts of the earth's geography can be captured an represented as a 3D pointcloud. The whole elevation dataset of the Netherlands (AHN2) is currently available and captured using this technique, it contains around 640 billion points. These massive dataset in its current form is well suited for...

Automatic generation of raster-based height data for the Netherlands based on the AHN2 data set

The recent emergence of Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) scanning technology has resulted in the availability of very large three dimensional point cloud data sets. These LiDAR data sets have become a main source for the modeling and reconstruction of both ground surface as well as above-ground objects such as buildings and vegetation. For...

Automatic repair of geometrically invalid 3D City Building models using a voxel-based repair method

In recent years, the concept of 3D city models has been gaining in importance as more 3D geometry of urban areas is becoming available. Although 3D City models offer a structured way of storing geometry, in practice a significant amount of geometry is not considered valid. This hinders the further analyzing or processing of these models. Since...

Automatic generation of CityGML LoD3 building models from IFC models

CityGML is a standardized data format used to store the semantic information and geometries of buildings and other object classes of 3D city models. The Level of Detail of current state of the art city models (LoD2) is not sufficient for accurate environmental simulations like noise, the solar potential of windows and other types of analyses. An...

Maintaining Reality: Modelling 3D spatial objects in a Geo-DBMS using a 3D primitive

The objective of this thesis is answering the following question: How can 3D spatial objects be modelled (i.e. /stored, validated, queried) in a Geo-DBMS using 3D primitives and how can these objects be visualised? To answer this question the theory from various literature is used to create a prototype implementation of a 3D primitive in a Geo...