Prof. Laefer’s high resolution LiDAR data from Dublin, Ireland was featured in the February issue of National Geographic. The story and accompanying video are now available online.
Prof. Laefer Introduces ieSoSc Students to LiDAR Point Clouds
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.
Public Release of the World’s Densest Urban Laser Scanning Dataset
We are delighted to announce that our 2015 aerial laser scanning data are now freely and publicly available through NYU’s Spatial Data Repository.
From the press release:
“At over 300 points per square meter, this is more than 30 times denser than typical LiDAR data and is an order of magnitude denser than any other aerial LiDAR dataset. The dataset also includes the first ever urban scan with the fullwave form version of the data, as well as affiliated imagery and video. The unprecedented comprehensiveness of this multi-layered dataset enables new opportunities in exploration and modeling. It also sets a new standard for what can be collected and used by cities around the world”
To read more, check out the full release on the Center for Urban Science + Progress website.