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Night shifts for a digital
terrain model in Frankfurt

Lidar data acquisition and generation of an elevation model

In April 2015, the city of  Frankfurt mandated BSF Swissphoto with an airborne Lidar acquisition of  Frankfurt city including the airport. With a point density of 10  points/m2 an area of 314 km2 has been scanned.

A  special challenge has been represented by the fact that the high air  traffic in Frankfurt did not allow for day operations. Due to this  reason the data acquisition has been realized during night.

An  important customer requirement was the avoidance of shadings and  invisible areas. This has been realized by cross flights as well as by  high sideward overlaps of min. 50%.


Our services

  • Lidar data acquistion of the whole urban area including a defined buffer

  • Classification of point cloud into 8 classes

  • Calculation of 3D point cloud in local coordinate and height system (UTM32/DHHN92)

  • Delivery of required products and formats

  • Quality control and documentation (meta data, technical report)

City of Frankfurt, Germany

April - November 2015

Frankfurt am Main,
Germany

Expertise

3D Mapping

Airborne Laserscanning

Recent publications:

Development and Employment of an LADM implementing toolkit in Colombia; Jenni/López/Ziegler/Pérez (2017); Paper presentation at "2017 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty", The World Bank - Washington DC; März 2017

LADM Implementation in Colombia – Process, Methodology and Tools developed and applied; Jenni/Germann/Eisenhut/Guarin/Bajo; Paper publication; Februar 2017

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