Successful field trips of the laser scanning course
This summer semester’s laser scanning course comprises a series of field trips done by small student groups of maximum two persons. Campaign planning and hands-on laser scanning in the field were conducted by the students and supervised by professor Bernhard Höfle, tutor Jörn profe, Kristina König, and Martin Hämmerle. Intensive learning for each single participant was thus guaranteed, and the captured ‘real’ data is the basis for the subsequent data processing. The student projects cover a broad range of research fields, ranging from viticulture over precision agriculture, forestry and geology to fluvial geomorphology.
The following pictures give an overview to the field trips:
Wednesday, 20th of May: Capturing data for a bare soil model that is used for deriving a maize field height and detecting influence of shadowing and relief on plant growth.Tuesday, 27th of May: Scanning trees in the Botanical Garden of Heidelberg University for deriving tree parameters.Wednesday, 28th of May: Capturing grapevines for deriving growth parameters and the influence of shadowing and relief effects.Thursday, 29th of May: Scanning patches of limestone outcrops for detecting geological layers.Sunday, 8th of June: Gathering the fourth data set of a gravel bar for analyzing fluvial dynamics.Monday, 9th of June: Scanning archaeological sites for deriving high-resolution surface models and the detection of archaeological objects.Sunday, 15th of June: Capturing a second data set of the maize field for analyzing plant growth.
