Department of Earth Observation Science

Shi, Wenzhong

Modelling positional and thematic uncertainties in integration of remote sensing and geographic information systems

Crommelinck, S. C.

Automating image-based cadastral boundary mapping

Zhao, X.

Random sets to model uncertainty in remotely sensed objects

Xu, S.

Classification and change detection in multi - epoch airborne laser scanning point clouds

Lyu, Y.

Dynamic scene understanding using deep neural networks

Zhao, W.

Extracting geometric features of buildings from remote sensing images

Ardila López, J. P.

Object-based methods for mapping and monitoring of urban trees with multitemporal image analysis

Other department

Zhan Qingming, 

A hierarchical object-based approach for urban land-use classification from remote sensing data

Li, M.

Urban land use extraction from very high resolution remote sensing images

Zhang, Z.

Photogrammetric point clouds: quality assessment, filtering, and change detection

Maiti, Abhisek

Multi-Modal Earth Observation and Deep Learning for Urban Scene Understanding

Li, F.

Semantic segmentation of pole-like road Furniture in mobile laser scanning data

Zhang, B.

Quantifying earth surface changes with multi-sensor SAR imagery

Dai, Shaoqing

Improving obesogenic environmental assessments with advanced geospatial methods

Araujo Navas, A. L.

Statistical evaluation of spatial uncertainty in schistosomiasis mapping

Dutta, R.

A spatio - temporal analysis of tea productivity and quality in North - East India

Mullissa, A. G.

Quality aspects of distributed scatterers in polarimetric differential SAR interferometry

Briechle, S.

UAV-based high-resolution remote sensing and machine learning for risk management in hazard and disaster areas

Bhatia, N.

Uncertainty Propagation of Atmospheric Correction Parameters

Jende, P. L. H.

Position estimation of mobile mapping imaging sensors using aerial imagery

Kulshrestha, A.

InSAR time series analysis for sinkhole detection using deep learning

Alsadik, B. S.

Guided close range photogrammetry for 3D modelling of cultural heritage sites

Osei, F. B.

Spatial statistics of epidemic data: the case of cholera epidemiology in Ghana

Das, I. D.

Spatial statistical modelling for assessing landslide hazard and vulnerability

Raj, R.

Quality assured estimates of forest gross primary production: integration of flux tower data and a process-based simulator

Vetrivel, A.

Automatic information extraction from remote sensing images and 3D point clouds for building damage assessment

Ghasemi, N.

Estimation of tree height from PolInSAR: The effects of vertical structure and temporal decorrelation

Dewi, R. S.

Multitemporal image analysis for monitoring fuzzy shorelines

Mahour, M.

Scaling of Remote Sensing Information for Orchard Management

van Zoest, V. M.

Spatio-temporal modelling of urban sensor network data: Mapping air quality risks in Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Yaseen, M.

Geostatistical and space geodetic methods applied to 3D coseismic displacement field : mapping earthquakes from space

Alidoost, F.

Copulas for integrating weather and land information in space and time

Nikoohemat, S.

Indoor 3D reconstruction of buildings from point clouds

Mohammadi, Sina

Crop type mapping from satellite image time series using deep learning

Mustafa, Y. T.

Improving forest growth estimation: Bayesian networks for integrating satellite images and process-based forest growth models

Gorte, Ben G.H.

Probabilistic segmentation of remotely sensed images

Bijker, W.

Radar for rain forest: a monitoring system for land cover change in the Colombian Amazon

Gevaert, C. M.

Unmanned aerial vehicle mapping for settlement upgrading

Anwar, S.

Spatial point process modelling of land use and land cover (LULC) change

van Niekerk, J. M.

Predicting the occurrence and spread of harmful microorganisms with statistical models

Karam, S.

Developing a SLAM-based backpack mobile mapping system for indoor mapping

Tian, Y.

Building reconstruction from terrestrial video image sequences

Xiao, J.

Automatic building detection using oblique imagery

Zhou, L.

Areal uncertainty in traffic island polygons extracted from airborne laser point clouds

Lin, Y.

Deep learning for semantic segmentation of airborne laser scanning point clouds

Groenigen, van, Jan-Willem

Constrained optimisation of spatial sampling: a geostatistical approach

Oude Elberink, S. J.

Acquisition of 3D topgraphy : automated 3D road and building reconstruction using airborne laser scanner data and topographic maps

Hussnain, S. Z.

Position estimation of mobile laser scanner using aerial imagery

Duarte, D.

Debris, rubble piles and façade damage detection using multi-resolution optical remote sensing imagery

Rulinda, C.

Assessing vegetative drought from multi-temporal NDVI images

Khuluse, S. A.

Spatial statistical modelling of urban particulate matter

Nyaruhuma, A. P.

Automatic verification of buildings using oblique airborne images

Bergado, J. R.

End-to-end predictive models for remote sensing applications

Department of Applied Earth Sciences

Debba Pravesh

Civil Society

Pu, S.

Knowledge based building facade reconstruction from laser point clouds and images

Lo, King-Chang

High quality automatic DEM, digital elevation model generation from multiple imagery

Xiong, B.

Reconstructing and correcting 3D building models using roof topology graphs

Detailed Narrative Description of Project: This work continues the Esprit4-LTR project 27781 (Assessment Phase) by further developing the techniques for representing and reasoning about "knowledge revision" in spatial datasets, and integrating them into current commercial and scientific applications.
The Assessment Phase showed the feasibility of providing the foundations for reasoning in such situations, and showed the useful roles to be played of fuzzy logic, non-monotonic logic and rough sets. Phase1 provided a unified approach to such methods, and developed criteria for the assessment of which technique to apply to which application.

The present Full Phase of the REVIGIS FET Project, will develop, from a demonstrator of the success of the foundation to a collection of industry-strength techniques, demonstrated in large-scale applications with a mix of partners in academia, commerce and national scientific organisations.

The work will also develop these techniques for the case (now usual) where the knowledge base is derived from distributed and semantically heterogeneous spatial databases, including the information extraction from primary data, such as remotely sensed imagery. This work is enhanced by the addition of new commercial and academic partners. Consequently, this requires evaluation of the impact of this work on national and European data quality standards. The project will prove the applicability of these concepts by constructing tools for application to the environmental and cadastral information bases. The theoretical and long-term foundational research strand will also be further developed.

The work plan divides the project into tasks:
(1) Reasoning under uncertainty with geographic knowledge;
(2) Land description with ill-defined spatial objects;
(3) Fusion and revision of strongly constrained spatial objects;
(4) Scientific general co-ordination, project management and information dissemination

Postdoctoral and  PhD applied research.

Topics include:
land description with ill-defined objects - Reasoning with indeterminate boundaries
Reasoning with multiply defined land classification.
Indeterminate boundaries with dynamic monitoring

Uncertainty Knowledge Maintenance and Revision in Geographic Information Systems

Training for Federal Surveys

RC 2001:  Digital Photogrammetry

It will be the first time that ITC will offer "Principles and Applications of Remote Sensing" fully at distance. This introductory course will cover the remote sensing topics as taught at ITC during the core module phase of the educational programme and has a study load of 20 to 24 hours per week.

Distance Course on Remote Sensing

To strengthen the capacity of representatives of regional and local governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations to apply geo-information in hazard and disaster management, in particular related to drought and crop monitoring and food security. Familiarise the course participants, in the form of case studies, with the various steps involved in the disaster management process. To demonstrate the potential of currently operational and forthcoming EO systems and data analysis techniques as well their effective adaptation and integration into existing activities.

RC 2003 - Drought monitoring and food security - the use of geo-informatics for hazard and disaster management in Eastern Africa

Familiarise and update the course participants, with the various steps involved in the disaster management process; 
- To strengthen the capacity of representatives of regional and local governmental and non-governmental organisations to apply geo-information in hazard and disaster management, in particular related to drought, desertification, crop growth monitoring, and food security; 
- To demonstrate the potential of currently operational and forthcoming EO systems and data analysis techniques, as well their effective adaptation and integration into existing activities; 
- The course will also provide a contribution to the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), ratified by Mozambique in 1996; 
- Reinforce the positions of CENACARTA and RCMRD in subsequent regional training in disaster management; 
- The course will further be a tangible follow-on activity to the UN-organised workshop on the Use of Space Technology in Disaster Management, held in Addis Ababa in 2002, where a pressing need for further training in Earth observation and geodata processing was identified.

RC 2004 - The Potential of Geoinformatics to Combat Drought, Desertification and Food Insecurity in South-East Africa

To strengthen the capacity of staff members of the involved organizations in point determination techniques 
To familiarize the course participants, in the form of guided practicals, to the various steps involved in Control point densification either using GPS or aerotriangulation. 
To examine methods of aerotriangulation with GPS support, automation in aerotriangulation and space triangulation. 
To demonstrate the potential of currently existing and forthcoming systems on data analysis techniques, as well as their effective adaptation and integration into existing processes. 
To draw product specifications and explain quality parameters.

RC 2004 -Control Point Densification applied in Surveying and Cadastral Applications

To foster awareness of new methods of geo-information provision based on sound technical knowledge of the capabilities and operational aspects of modern sensor technology; 
To strengthen the capacity of university staff and representatives of national and local governmental organisations to select and utilise the most adequate technology; 
To familiarise the course participants, with the processes of generation of core data; 
To demonstrate the potential of currently operational systems and data analysis techniques for urban planning and disaster management.

RC 2004 - Active Sensors - Principles and Capabilities

UNESCO, Dept. of Earth Sciences, co-sponsors ITC students of the Earth Sciences program of the study year 2003-2004.

UNESCO contribution to EREG courses 2003/2004

Course "C": Laserscanning and Interferometric SAR

Aim: exposure of airborne laser and radar technology for producing surface models to potential users, and specifically transfer of knowledge gathered by the 2 recent OEEPE projects on LA and InSAR (terminated March 2001). 

Main objectives: at the end of the course the participant will be able to explain the basic principles, capabilities and the (potential) applications of current airborne LS and InSAR and be aware of the operational aspects of these technologies.

Course content: review of basic concepts, operational aspects including quality control, data processing, (potential) applications, comparison with other sensors.

Study material: text and slides, OEEPE publication #40, websites, commercial software, various laster and SAR data sets. 

Teachers: Dr. K. Tempfli & G. Huurneman (ITC), and Prof. I. Dowman (OEEPE InSAR project leader for feed back.

EUROSDR - EduServ-2 Distance Education

Compensation for secretarial, communication, postal and regular expenses related to the Editorial Office activities in connection with the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geo-information.

Editorial Office "International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geo-information" (2004 - 2005)

Virtual reality (VR) is een krachtig hulpmiddel voor de communicatie tussen overheid en burgers, respectievelijk andere belanghebbenden voor het verschaffen van inzicht in het plannen en vernieuwen van de openbare ruimte, bijvoorbeeld bij stedelijke planning, herinrichting/reconstructie's. VR kan ook een belangrijke rol spelen bij veiligheidsanalysis. Om VR voor deze doelen in te kunnen zetten is de beschikbaarheid van een 3D model van de omgeving essentieel. Ook is het van belang dat het model aan de eisen van de betreffende toepassing voldoet. De kosten van de vervaardiging van een VR omgeving zijn hoog waardoor deze communicatievorm op dit moment niet op grote schaal wordt toegepast. Het doel van dit project is de inzetbaarheid van VR voor communicatie te verbeteren door enerzijds een inventarisatie en analyse van eisen aan een VR omgeving uit te voeren, en anderzijds methoden te ontwikkelen voor een snellere en goedkopere productie van VR omgevingen.

BSIK "Virtual reality for Town Planning"

- ISPRS WG III/3 - Processing of point clouds from laser scanners and other sensors.
- ISPRS WG III/4 - Utomatic image interpretation for 3D modelling.
- ISPRS WG V/3 - Terrestrial laser scanning.

Laser scanning 2005

Synoptics is involved in a project to work out the validation procedurefor the quality assessment of Remote Sensing Derived products in particular for digital Terrain Models. ITC has been asked to assist in three workpackages. 
WP 1: Validation User Driven,; which is based on a validation procedure so that the product delivered to the customer can be evaluated.
WP 2: Remote Sensing production chain validation method (SAR-DEM), and
WP 3: Evaluation: the project findings of the two workpackages will be discussed, reported and defined.

Professionalisering van de radargrammetrische DEM productie lijn & standaardisatie

De huidige topografische bestanden zijn op dit moment beperkt tot 2D representaties, soms aangevuld met een hoogte component (2,5D). De situaties waarin dit in de praktijk onvoldoende blijkt komen steeds vaker voor: viaducten, gebouwen boven wegen, tunnels, etc. Er is daarom behoefte aan echte 3D topografie. Dit betreft zowel het modelleren, inwinnen, analyseren als de ontsluiting (3D/VR interfaces) van de 3D topografie. Daar waar dit echter niet nodig is moet de meer traditionele representatie (2,5D) gebruikt kunnen worden. Bovendien moeten de 3D en 2,5D representatie naadloos op elkaar aansluiten. Het onderzoek in dit project richt zich, in het kader van de driedimensionale terreinmodellering, op de toepassing van zogenaamde Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs) en Tetrahedron Networks (TENs). Het terrein zelf (het maaiveld) wordt daarbij gemodelleerd als een TIN. In dit TIN zijn alle hoogtepunten en de platte representatie van de terreinobjecten (het grondvlak) opgenomen als een verzameling aanliggende, elkaar niet overlappende driehoeken. Dit is de welbekende 2,5D terreinmodellering, waarbij voor elke positie een kenmerkende hoogte is toegestaan.

3D Topography

Mid-term Symposium "Remote Sensing: From Pixels to Processes". The ISPRS Mid-term Symposium for Technical Commission 7, "Thematic Processing, Modelling and analysis of Remotely Sensed Data", will bring together researchers, professionals, managers and decision makers to discuss the issues and latest trends and developments in remote sensing methodology. Each of the eight working groups of the Commission will be organising special sessions, with keynote speakers and speakers from around the world who will come to ITC at that time. There will be workshops, tutorials, PhD master classes for young researchers, and other scientific, technical and social events. 8-11 May 2006.

ISPRS Commission VII - Mid term Symposium, 8-11 May 2006

Specificatie van het op te leveren product
De AGI wil middels de gevraagde scan inzicht krijgen in wat er mogelijk is op het gebied van objectherkenning onder water. Met onderwater meetsystemen zijn tegenwoordig 3 dimensionale puntenwolken te verkrijgen. Met behulp van objectherkenning/3D visualisatie zou het mogelijk moeten zijn uit een 3 dimensionale puntenwolk de ligging van een object, waarvan de vorm bekend is, te schatten. Hierbij gaat het vooral om de ligging in x- en y-coordinaten. Echter ook de hoogtecomponent en de mogelijk yaw, pitch en roll van een object zijn belangrijk.

De gevraagde scan zal antwoord moeten geven op de volgende vragen:
- Wat voor objectherkenning technieken zijn momenteel voor handen en wat voor ontwikkelingen zijn op korte termijn te verwachten. Het betreft ook technieken die in andere sectoren als de maritieme worden toegepast. Van de verschillende technieken zal een inhoudelijke beschrijving moeten worden gegeven waardoor de opdrachtgever zich een goed beeld kan vormen van de voor en nadelen van de desbetreffende technieken. Van de aanbieder wordt verwacht dat hij in zijn offerte een opsomming geeft van de eigenschappen die voor elke techniek worden beschreven.
- Wat voor software programma's zijn beschikbaar voor objectherkenning/3d visualisatie.
- Welke marktpartijen kunnen objectherkenning/3d visualisatie uitvoeren voor RWS.

Objectherkenning m.b.t. objecten gelegen onder water

The study aims at providing ESA with a robust understanding of current competitive positions and perspectives for the European and Canadian industry in the various market segments across the complete spectrum of satellite-based value-adding services. This will be achieved through: (1) comprehensive overview of the downstream value-adding sectors in satellite-based services, 
(2) survey of the economic, technological and strategic trends for the industry,
(3) identification of risks and opportunities for the European and Canadian players,
(4) definition of recommendations to improve competitiveness and market access of the European and Canadian value-adding services community.

Assessment of the downstream value adding sectors of the space-based applications

The role of ITC is to ensure substantial manuscript inflow and the high scientific standards of papers, with responsibilities for the coordination of editing, refereeing, submissions, and communications with authors, as well as ensuring that such activities are done in conformity with the Editorial Policies and good publishing practices (the "Editorial Services").

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Editor in Chief

Project to set up a remote sensing and GIS lab at the National University of Mongolia (NUM). Total costs are around US $ 28.500 of which UNESCO co-finances € 5.000. The other costs are shared by ITC, NUM and Clarke laboratories.

ITC-UNESCO remote sensing centre in Mongolia

The course deals with the latest development in the use of aerial images for the production of topographic mapping as well as for map updating. It covers and methods of images transformation; feature extraction; quality assessment, editing for GIS application; digital terrain model generation/ortho-image production; map design and visualisation, particular suited for distribution through the internet. Target group: the course is intended for the following participants: NFP alumni in Zambia and neighbouring countries, that they have followed courses in Photogrammetry-Remote sensing, Cartography, Geo-information Management, or Urban planning and Land administration. Relevant staff or students from the UNZA and from local government and planning institutions.

RC 2006: Photogrammetric Spatial Data Acquisition within the Scope of GIS and Internet-oriented Mapping

VITO

Short course on Digital Photogrammetry in ITC for 3 persons.

Iran Cartography Course

In the past, the inspection of rail track conditions in the Netherlands have been done on site, which causes a shutdown of a section of the inspected track parts for at least half an hour. To overcome the security and economical problems with this inspection procedure, Strukton Railinfra currently develops a prototype, that uses a set of digital video cameras mounted on a regular train to acquire visual data for later inspection at the computer. In the near future, the inspection will be mostly manually, but in the long run it is expected to increase the amount of automation in processing the data.
ITC is involved in the discussion of the image analysis aspects of the prototype.

Mapping of Rail Track Surroundings Based on Image Sequences - Feasibility Study

ITC is providing consultancy for the development of a public web portal for georeferencing and sharing context information, including images and videos. In the future, the web portal will be an interface for ITC's efforts on rapid mapping based on user imagery.
Specially, our services include the derivation of a database model, setup of a site structure and development of various modules for the web site. This project will be communicated with ITC's partners and clients.

Development of a public web portal for georeferencing and sharing context information

EDUSERV4 - 2006

The meeting presents the latest developments in quantitative and qualitative approaches and information theory towards special data quality.

5th International Symposium on spatial Data Quality

The Refresher Course deals with the latest developments in the use of aerial images for the production of topographic mapping as well as for map updating. It covers concepts and methods of image transformation; feature extraction; quality assessment; editing for GIS application; digital terrain model generation/ortho-image production; map design and visualization, particular suited for distribution through the internet.

RC 2007: Photogrammetric spatial data acquisition within the scope of GIS and internet-oriented mapping

The Refresher Course emphasis is on regionally owned space infrastructure, i.e. from satellites of the Disaster Management Constellation (DMC) that are owned by Nigeria and Algeria. Hence lectures and practical work will focus on the use and limitations of those data, and augmented with integration issues of auxiliary data that ere available for the region. To built a more regional disaster ,management approach, a 1 day workshop preceding the course but also involving participants is organised to bring together data providers and (potential) data users in the region, to (i) establish better knowledge of and access to available spatial data (in particular from the DMC satellites), and (ii) stimulate lasting capacity building activities for geoinformatics-based disaster management in the region and increased cross-border disaster risk reduction. The medium-term objective is a regional disaster management strategy that is strongly supported by space technology and geoinformatics capacity that has actually been developed in the region itself.

RC 2007: Building Disaster Management Capacity in Western Africa with Regionally Owned Satellites

Opstellen van richtlijnen en controleprocedures voor de inwinning van laserscannergegevens met een zeer hoge puntdichtheid. E.e.a. uit te voeren op verzoek van de AHN stuurgroep als onderaannemer van Geodelta B.V.

Richtlijnen en controleprocedures voor de inwinning van laserscannergegevens met een zeer hoge puntdichtheid

Virtual reality (VR) is een krachtig hulpmiddel voor de communicatie tussen overheid en burgers, respectievelijk andere belanghebbenden voor het verschaffen van inzicht in het plannen en vernieuwen van de openbare ruimte, bijvoorbeeld bij stedelijke planning, herinrichting/reconstructies. VR kan ook een belangrijke rol spelen bij veiligheidsanalyse. Om VR voor deze doelen in te kunnen zetten is de beschikbaarheid van een 3D model van de omgeving essentieel. Ook is het van belang dat het model aan de eisen van de betreffende toepassing voldoet. De kosten van de vervaardiging van een VR omgeving zijn hoog waardoor deze communicatievorm op dit moment niet op grote schaal wordt toegepast. Het doel van dit project is de inzetbaarheid van VR voor communicatie te verbeteren door enerzijds een inventarisatie en analyse van eisen aan een VR omgeving uit te voeren, en anderzijds methoden te ontwikkelen voor een snellere en goedkopere productie van VR omgevingen.

Professor George Vosselman of ITC's Earth Observation Sytems Department prepared and ran a two-day training course/discussion on Laser Scanning Technology at the premises of COWI in Silkeborg, Denmark on Thursday 22nd Friday 23rd March 2007.

The course covered the following topics:
- visualization techniques (importasnt for visual quality checks)
- error sources
- segmentation of point clouds (as a preprocessing step for some of the following topics)
- measuring height differences between strips
- meassuring shifts between strips
- approaches for strip adjustment (1D or 3D, modeling of error sources or modeling of effects on DTM)
- quality assessment procedures in the Netherlands
- approaches for filtering (mathematical morphology, least squares interpolation (used in SCOP++), TIN densification (used in TerraScan), segment filtering)
- detection of break-lines

Seminar on Laser Scanning for COWI - Denmark

Editorial Office "International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geo-Information" (2006 - 2008)

Inmeten waterkeringen bij Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland

The project aims at the monitoring of tree objects (i.e. trees, tree lines and tree groups) making use of earth observation techniques. Tree objects are living objects and therefore they change in time. Besides that the objects change in appearance throughout the year. The project develops technology to combine existing (field) information on tree objects with image information for the purpose of observing signals of change and environmental monitoring.

Boom en Beeld: Technologieontwikkeling mutatiesignalering boomobjecten

ITC will advice Arcadis on the processing of laser data.

Processen van laserstroken

The Indonesian Court of Audits is developing a new methodology to monitor and audit expenditure of disaster-related funds. The project aims to support this initiative through the development of a methodology applying a combination of remote sensing and field data to follow the flow of funds in the reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh.

Use of Geographical Information System for Audit of Disaster-Related Aid

Rijkswaterstaat - Evaluation Reportgarnet

Attendance at presentation on design of the "Management of Spatial Information" module and have prepared a draft module plan. The module is targeted at a broad range of users who are, or will be, involved in the creation, management, analysis and dissemination of spatial data. Techniques for the electronic capture, storage and management of spatial data, as well as for the retrieval, analysis, dissemination and visualization of spatial data products will be included in the module. The module will also serve to build awareness with managers and technical co-ordinators by demonstrating how spatially integrated data can be effective in the process of decision-making and how the use of the latest mapping technologies can best save their, and/or their clients' needs.

E-learning module on the "Management of Spatial Information"

EDUServe 2007

Vereniging voor Statistiek en Operationele Research (vVS) - Hogeschool Holland

A detailed elevation model of the whole country using Airborne Laser Altimetry
Right in that flat Netherlands differences in elevation are very important. Before the end of this century the elevation levels of the entire Netherlands, i.e. every square of 4x4 metres, will be mapped. A plane using a laser scanner measures every pit and every hump. The results of this new technique, called laser altimetry, has various and divergent applications. Whether town planner or designer of computer games, one is happy with this new development.
Like a bird we fly over the North of Amsterdam. Below us, high-rise flat buildings, neatly placed beside one another, seem to be moving in and out of the picture. We fly across a road where we can see cars and close to a sports hall we take a sharp turn. At the edge of the lake there seem to float big green blobs in the water. There are weeping willows that have been filtered out the elevation file, but which are still visible in the aerial photograph. Trees lining the road are also filtered out, but the maker of the video has put back the stems so as to emulate the real picture of the suburb as well as possible. Another mouse click and there, on the screen, follows a repeat of virtual Flight Across The Netherlands by the end of the year it will be possible to have a virtual flight across half of the Netherlands.

AHN: Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland

This European Road Safety Inspection (EuRSI) research project addresses short-comings in current rural-road safety inspection procedures, where the vast majority of accidents occur. These include research and development of latest state-of-the-art mobile route-corridor mapping technologies to highlight hazards and replace existing manual inspection methods. A second area deals with exploring novel risk assessment approaches to highlighting rural-road sections that may require immediate safety intervention following an RSI. A third area tackles transnational standardization issues through testing and independent validation of the system in four separate member states. ITC is a member of the consortium along with the National Centre for Geo-computation in Ireland (the project leader), NAST (Austria), IBIS (United Kingdom) and PUC (Ireland).

European Road Safety Inspection Project

The municiplity of Rotterdam set up a program of requirements to acquire 3D building models of Rotterdam, using a dense airborne laser scanner data set. The programme will be executed by companies who are contracted out. We have given advise advise to the municipality to indicate whether the requirements are feasible. Our advice was either change the time schedule or the quality requirements, as these were much too optimistic.

Advice on virtual model of Rotterdam

Laser scanning data software installation and instruction.

iDelft

Tailor made course Sami. 2 months training "Mastering ERDAS Leica Photogrammetry Suite through assisted self learning". 10 October 2011 - 13 January 2012.

Geo-information Science & Earth Observation for Geoinformatics

HydroCity is a project that aims to collect and distribute accurate and up-do-date hydrological information. ITC will focus on the calculation of so-called hydro-parameters, e.g. height an infiltration capacity, per object. The objects can be buildings, trees, road parts, etcetera. The appearances of the objects depend on the scale of the input and output. ITC's task is to combine geo-information in such a way that the calculation of the hydroparameters is accurate. The overall project HydroCity consists of 7 sub projects and is coordinated by Neo and Hydrologic. ITC is involved in sub project 2.

HydroCity - open platform als brug naar een klimaatadaptieve stad

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