Modelling a military scene using a Discrete Global Grid System

Nowadays, the military stakeholders take advantage of the various geospatial infrastructure and technology while exploiting the wide use and distribution of geographic data, to model military scenes and/or conduct geospatial analysis for military operational scenarios. While a host of technology is offered, in potential joint military operations...

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...

Automatic construction of 3D tree models in multiple levels of detail from airborne LiDAR data

Automatically generated 3D city models are becoming less of a futuristic, demanding or even impossible to attain goal, and more of a necessary, or vastly sought after, means for a multitude of applications. The current prevalence of open geographic information, such as nationwide-covering LiDAR datasets in the Netherlands, opens up opportunities...

Urban Vegetation Modeling 3D Levels of Detail

3D city models are now common planning and analysis tools. Urban vegetation as a feature in these models, however, is neglected overshadowed by the focus on buildings, so its inclusion in 3D city models is often symbolic. On the other hand, urban vegetation improves the comfort and social well being of a city’s inhabitants and is a resource for...

Geographically weighted Urban Heat Island modelling using the Netatmo sensors: The case of the Hague

The continuously increasing population within cities imposes the future challenges related to planning and managing the sustainable environment, where people’s health and wellbeing is prioritized. Currently more than half of the world’s population live in cities which results in the rise of the human footprint, affecting the local climate....