Volumetric Pothole Detection from UAV-Based Imagery

Road networks are essential elements of a community's infrastructure and need regular inspection. Present practice requires traffic interruptions and safety risks for inspectors. The road detection system based on vehicle-mounted lasers is also quite mature, offering advantages such as high-precision defect detection, high automation, and...

Automating building element detection for deconstruction planning and material reuse: A case study

To address the need for a shift from a linear to a circular economy in the built environment, this paper develops a semi-automated assistive process for planning building material deconstruction for reuse using sensing and scanning, Scan-to-BIM, and computer vision techniques. These methods are applied and tested in a real-world case study in...

The influence of drone flightpath on photogrammetric model quality

In 2017 the Netherlands had 7146km of railways [Ramaekers et al., 2009], which are owned and managed by ProRail and have to be frequently surveyed, for quality inspection. Surveying is done using a variety of surveying techniques, many of which require surveyors to walk on or near the tracks, which could cause injuries. An alternative surveying...

Challenges for Updating 3D Cadastral Objects using LiDAR and Image-based Point Clouds

Nowadays due to the increasing complex and multifunctional building environment in the urban areas it is required an accurate geometry and proper legal registration of the cadastral objects including third dimension and time aspect. 2D land-parcel data seems insufficient to address the variety of problems in high density residential areas. This...

Features of Point Clouds and Functionalities of Processing Software

To be useful, the millions or even billions of 3D points generated by a variety of active and passive sensors need to be stored, organised, combined, geo-referenced, measured, analysed and distributed within organisations or outward. Initially, the data is unorganised; software has been designed, developed and put on the market place to organise...