Advancements in LiDAR Technology and Applications in Remote Sensing
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 May 2025 | Viewed by 793
Special Issue Editor
2. Telespazio Ibérica, Avenida de Manoteras nº18, Planta 5 Puerta 1 Oficina 3, 28050 Madrid, Spain
Interests: LiDAR; remote sensing; image processing; UAV
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
LiDAR technology has become one of the most important tools for different types of inspections and monitoring tasks. In recent years, LiDAR sensors have become less expensive, their accuracy and scanning speed have increased, and their weight has decreased. All this has enabled this technology to be used in different fields, such the inspection of infrastructures, roads, and power lines. This technology can be used for biodiversity monitoring tasks, such as forest monitoring and inventory, among others. In addition, the combination of this technology with autonomous vehicles such as UAVs has allowed for the use of these sensors in new applications, such as the inspection of hard-to-access infrastructures, such as bridges and wind turbines.
This Special Issue aims at showcasing studies on disruptive applications of LiDAR technology in various fields, showing the new ways in which it can be applied, or the optimization of its current applications. This Special Issue is focused on LiDAR technology and point cloud processing algorithms, but studies in which LiDAR is used in combination with other sensors, such as different kinds of cameras or radar sensors, are also welcome. Articles may address, but are not limited, to the following topics:
- Infrastructure inspections;
- Biodiversity monitoring;
- Power line inspections;
- Wind turbine inspections;
- Machine learning algorithms for point cloud processing;
- Scan-to-BIM algorithms.
Dr. Luis Miguel González de Santos
Guest Editor
Name: Enrique Aldao Pensado
Guest Editor Assistant
Email: [email protected]
Address: Research Institute of Physics and Aerospace Sciences (IFCAE), University of Vigo, Campus of As Lagoas, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Webpage: https://portalcientifico.uvigo.gal/investigadores/875165/detalle
Interests: LiDAR; remote sensing; machine learning; IA based algorithms
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Keywords
- LiDAR
- point cloud processing
- UAV
- infrastructure monitoring
- machine learning
- power lines inspection
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