LiDAR, Point Clouds and Applications for Civil Infrastructures
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 445
Special Issue Editors
Interests: LiDAR; point cloud processing; forest management; forest fires; spatial analysis; geographical information systems; road management
Interests: LiDAR; point cloud; laser scanner; computational geometry; machine learning; classification; deep learning; physical accessibility
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will actively contribute to the use of LiDAR technologies applied for civil infrastructures as well as its surrounding areas. Nowadays, point clouds acquired through laser scanning have been deemed to be one of the best sources for mapping civil infrastructure. The high point density enables automated extraction of multiple features on civil infrastructures, which are typically collected manually during long site visits. If used to their full potential, LiDAR datasets could create a paradigm shift in how geometric assessment and safety audits on civil infrastructures are conducted.
This Special Issue is dedicated to publishing high-quality original research articles, reviews, and applications on the use of LiDAR, point clouds and its applications regarding civil infrastructures. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Point-clouds for road object detection and extraction
- Automated processing of point clouds for structural health monitoring
- Detection of pavement distresses using LiDAR point clouds
- Effects of LiDAR point density on extraction civil infrastructure elements
- New applications of LiDAR data in smart infrastructures
- New LiDAR acquisition platforms for civil infrastructures
- Point cloud processing for digital twins
Dr. Ana Novo
Dr. Jesús Balado Frías
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Point clouds
- Civil infrastructures
- Feature extraction
- Classification and semantic segmentation
- Machine learning and deep learning
- Modeling
