Terrestrial Laser Scanning

State-of-the-art techniques and methods enable new workflows in analysis and valuation as well as visual communication of planning contents. The 3D Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) provides high speed, non-contact data acquisition of large landscape areas with very high accuracy. Through the combination of LiDAR point clouds and high resolution photos virtual representations of the landscape with a high degree of realism can be produced.

This data acquisition technique allows for the transformation of landscape characteristics such as terrain, vegetation and building structures into precise 3D (terrain) models and 3D objects, if necessary with millimetre accuracy. The scanner data are used for enhancing environmental analysis and models as well as to improve the visual (it looks like) as well as the functional (it acts like) level of detail of 3D landscape visualizations.

Ongoing projects

• 3D terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) for analysis and numerical simulation of landslides (T.M. Klein, C. Graf, U. Wissen Hayek, A. Grêt-Regamey)

• 3D visualization of alternative landscape development scenarios for public participation and informed decision making - case study of Blauen (BL) (U. Wissen Hayek, T.M. Klein, M. Glaus, A. Grêt-Regamey) »»