As a part of NYU Tandon’s Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Science of Smart Cities (ieSoSC) program for K-12 students, Prof. Debra Laefer introduced this summer’s cohort to the wide world of aerial laser scanning. In addition to receiving an introduction to laser scanning, the students also had the opportunity to work with real world laser scanning point clouds collected in Dublin, Ireland. Students also learned how to create video fly-throughs of the data using the open source software CloudCompare.
Prof. Laefer was delighted to have the opportunity to share her research with the next generation of emerging urban scientists and looks forward to continued collaboration with the ieSoSC program.