Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry – Research projects
Previous projects
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3D Personal Navigation and LBS for the Shanghai Exposition in 2010 (3D-NAVI-EXPO)
The project 3D Personal Navigation and LBS for the Shanghai Exposition in 2010 (3D-NAVI-EXPO) is an international collaboration project.
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6Aika: Open city model as open innovation platform (AKAI)
The objective of the project is to develop an open innovative platform based on a collaborative 3D city model.
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Analysis and processing of SAR images
By the use of differential SAR interferometry and permanent scatterer techniques, it is possible to study target movements between SAR acquisitions.
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Anisotropy of backscatter, BRF, and goniometry
It is known that most natural surfaces are scattering incident radiation anisotropically as a function of illumination and viewing direction.
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Application of Remote Sensing for Estimation of Agricultural Crop Production
Due to increasing consumption of food in the world and due to increasing cooperation of agriculture policy between European countries the importance of annual crop production estimation has been increased.
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ASPECT
ASPECT Project - developing an autonomous UAV-based tree health analyzer
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Between bark and wood (MONITUHO)
The project helps to adapt to the climate change induced increase in bark beetle damage.
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Chistera 4map4health
Mapping of forest health, species and forest fire risks using Novel ICT Data and Approaches
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COMBAT/Pointcloud
COMBAT/Pointcloud produces information on the use of a three-dimensional measuring technique known as laser scanning, and thereby creates preconditions for the growth of the Finnish 3D industry.
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CyberGrass
CyberGrass -project introduces a new method for assessing the quality and quantity of grass fodder based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellites.
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Density4Trees
Density4Trees project – Understanding Wood Density Variation Within and Between Trees Using Multispectral Point Cloud Technologies and X-ray microdensitometry.
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Development of block adjustment methods
The knowledge of the orientation of the images taken from airborne or space platforms is needed before the images can be exploited.
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Development of ground based and Remote Sensing, automated ‘real-time’ grass quality measurement techniques to enhance grassland management information platforms (GrassQ)
The focus of this project is to develop and enable an intelligent system that will apply precision management to whole farm grassland and grazing systems.
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Development of mapping and modeling methods as part of flood risk management business
The making of flood risk assessment and management plans for possible flood scale mapping and modeling and the modeling of changes in river habitats is a hundreds of millions worth business in Europe.
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Digital photogrammetry
The goal of digital photogrammetry is to establish the geometric relationship between an object and a digital image and derive information about the object strictly from the image.
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Digitalis
Digitalization - opportunities for practical applications
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Diversity4Forests
Capturing structural and functional diversity of trees and tree communities for supporting sustainable use of forests
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Doctoral programme of built environment
RYM-TO is a Finnish nationwide multidisciplinary doctoral programme that covers extensively the field of the built environment.
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DrooniLuuppina
Identification of unwanted species in seed multiplication and in pure oat cultivation
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Economy and technology of a global peer produced 3D geographical information system in built environment
The objective of the research project is to study how an alternative peer produced (user-generated, community-created) economy could be built to complement the current ones.
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Energyzing Urban Ecosystems
Aalto University will establish Espoo Urban Lab in Otaniemi within a EUE program.
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Environmental applications of modern-day satellite SAR images (NeoSAR)
The objective of the research is to develop environmental applications for modern-day very-high-resolution satellite SAR images.
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ESRIUM
ESRIUM is a multi-national project with the common goal to set up a service to foster greener and smarter road usage, road maintenance, and to increase road safety. The key innovation will be formed by a homogeneous, accurate and recent digital map of road surface damage and road wear. ESRIUM’s core proposition is a data platform, which hosts highly detailed EGNSS-referenced map data of road damage and associated safety risks at centimeter-level resolution. Further addressed as “road wear map”, it will contain unique information, which is of value to multiple stakeholders: road operators will be able to lower the road maintenance effort by optimal planning.
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EuroSDR Building Extraction
The objective of the EuroSDR Building Extraction project was to evaluate the quality, accuracy, feasibility and economical aspects of semi-automatic and automatic building extraction based on laser scanner data and/or aerial images.
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EuroSDR project: Radiometric aspects of digital photogrammetric images
Digital imaging is rapidly replacing film imaging in phtogrammetric data capture.
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EuroSDR/ISPRS Tree Extraction
The Finnish Geodetic Institute coordinates the EuroSDR/ISPRS Tree Extraction project, which started at the end of 2004.
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Evergreen Revolution with Cover Crops (IKIVIHREÄ)
Cover crops enable soft structural change of Finnish agriculture.
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FAST
Ultrafast Data Production with Broadband Photodetectors for Active Hyperspectral Space
Imaging
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FEROX
Fostering and Enabling AI, Data and Robotics Technologies for Supporting Human Workers in Harvesting Wild Food
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FireMan
Unmanned aerial systems based solutions for real-time management of wildfires
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Forest canopy height models from radargrammetric and interferomertric SAR processing (Dragon-EYS)
The study at FGI concerns forest canopy height models from radargrammetric and interferometric SAR-processing.
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Forest cycles
Monitoring and understanding forest ecosystem cycles using high temporal and spatial resolution terrestrial laser scanning time series.
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Forest Growth
In the study, different algorithms and methods are developed for growth estimation.
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FUTURECROPS 2.
Market oriented, carbon sequestering and biodiversity enhanced crop rotations
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Geodetic applications of SAR imagery
By the use of differential SAR interferometry and permanent scatterer techniques, it is possible to study target movements between SAR acquisitions.
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Green-Digi-Basin
Green and digital transition in river basin management
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Hyperspectral stereoscopic imaging in Remote sensing (HSI-STEREO)
Imaging using light-weight, Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) is one of the most rapidly developing fields in remote sensing technology.
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ICT Lidar
Lidar-based energy efficient ICT solutions (ICT_Lidar)
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Improved absolute-gravity measurements in the Antarctic (GRAVLASER)
The aim of this research project is to deepen the knowledge of cryosphere-lithosphere interaction in Antarctica.
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Intelligent built environment - combining the virtual and physical worlds (ÄRY)
Mobile mapping and laser scanning based mapping, processing and representation technologies.
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KAOS
Project aims to develop the knowledge capital and preparedness of applying and utilizing 3D city modeling in 6Aika
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LAS3R
LAS3R Project – Low orbit altimetry, Albedo, and Antarctic Snow and Sea-ice Surface Roughness.
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Laser spectroscopy
The laser spectroscopy project utilizes a supercontinuum laser source.
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MaaTu
The MaaTu project produces refined spatial data on the occurrence and depth of peat soils using remote sensing, empirical field data, and machine learning methods.
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Measurement, Monitoring and Environmental Assessment (MMEA)
The aim of the MMEA research consortium is to develop new tools, standards and methods for environmental measurement.
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MeteOC4
Remote sensing of Earth from space using the global observation system is the major means of obtaining the trustworthy data needed for climate change
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Methods and algorithms of laser scanning
The research of laser scanning was initiated in Finland in 1997.
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Metric 3D environmental analysis based on aerial imaging and open spatial data (3DEnviAnalysis)
In the modern society, the need for up-to-date three dimensional (3D) information is growing in many application fields.
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Mobile Forest Tomography - Interaction of Lidar/Radar Beams with Forests Using Mini-UAV and Mobile Forest Tomography
The objective of the project is to improve measurement techniques in forest tomography.
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Mobile Hyperspectral Laser Remote Sensing (MobiLaser)
The aim of this project is the development of active hyperspectral LiDAR prototype.
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Mobile mapping and 3D Traffic
In this project a platform for integration of a laser scanner, a GPS positioning unit and an IMU system into a moving 3D mapping unit was constructed.
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Multi-spectral personal laser scanning for automated environment characterization (MPLSAC)
The research project focuses on developing multispectral personal laserscanning for environment characterization.
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Multisource 3D/4D-forest resource management: methodology & applications (DIGILE/D2I)
The main task of the DIGILE/D2I project is development of new data acquisition system for 3D/4D precision forestry.
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National guidelines for airborne photogrammetry
We are coordinating a working group that develops novel national guidelines for airborne imaging.
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Natural Resources Risk Management in GeoIT solutions
LuHaGeoIT project aims to contribute to a more open flow of information on climate change research.
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Navigation and Remote Sensing Technologies and Possibilities related to Future Cars and their Autonomous Driving Sensor Technologies (NavDrive)
In this project we develop and innovate new Finnish knowhow related to future cars and autonomous driving technologies.
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NC-GRASS
Dairy and beef industries in Finland: Progressing pathways to carbon-neutrality by 2035
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New Applications for Ubiquitous Multi- and Hyperspectral Mobile Mapping Systems (UbiHyperMapping)
The project studies and improves the feasibility of a new type of remote sensing systems, actively scanning multiple wavelength and hyperspectral lase
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New techniques in active remote sensing: hyperspectral laser in environmental change detection
This project brings up novel spectroscopic and radiometric laser scanning methods to be applied in the change detection of the Boreal environment.
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Opal Life
OPAL-Life started in 2015 and it aims at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture following the principle of sustainable intensification.
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Orientation of aerial and satellite images without using targeted ground control
Solving orientations, i. e. parameters of the mathematical model of imaging, is an inevitable task when utilising aerial and satellite images
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Physical and virtual innovation platform of autonomous Last mile urban transportation (SOHJOA)
Project Sohjoa addresses the challenges of new economic growth industries as well as sustainable intelligent transportation development.
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Production and exploitation of geometrically accurate, multi-spectral, multi-angular, reflectance time series based on airborne photogrammetry (GEORAD)
This is a Postdoctoral Researchers Project funded by the Academy of Finland.
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Quality of direct georeferencing and calibration of direct georeferencing systems
The direct georeferencing is based on integration of GPS and IMU.
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Quality4Trees
Quality4Trees Project – Feasibility of Inside-Canopy UAV Laser Scanning for Automated Tree Quality Surveying
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Quantitative remote sensing by 3D hyperspectral UAVs – From theory to practice (QuantitativeRS)
Remote sensing using small unmanned airborne vehicle (sUAV) is a rapidly emerging technology.
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Regional Innovation Ecosystems (RYM-RIE)
The core contributions of the project are to develop and demonstrate innovative digital solutions to the regional information models, including automatic updating of the models.
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RehuDrooni
RehuDrooni-project studies drone based remote sensing methods and their prospects for enhancing sustainable development of cattle feed production
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Remote sensing in agriculture
The FGI has studied the remote sensing methods in agriculture since the beginning of the 1990's.
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SAR interferometry
The project started the study of the SAR interferometry in the FGI.
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SILS
Upscaling of carbon intake and water balance models of individual trees to wider areas with short interval laser scanning time series
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SMART-HSI
Smart hyperspectral imaging solutions for new era in Earth and planetary observations
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SPRUCERISK
The project will create methods and practices to improve the climate resilience of our forests from a forest health perspective.
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Tandem
Estimating Forest Resources and Quality-related Attributes Using Automated Methods
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The Advanced Techniques for Forest Biomass and Biomass Change Mapping Using Novel Combination of Active Remote Sensing Sensors (Advanced_SAR)
The Advanced Techniques for Forest Biomass and Biomass Change Mapping Using Novel Combination of Active Remote Sensing Sensors (Advanced_SAR) project
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Towards improved characterization of map objects
The main objective of the project is to develop a near-automatic characterization/interpretation method for natural objects by using a complete model
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Transportation Data Acquisition by Means of ICT-derived 3D Modeling
The objective of the project is to prototype a van-based mobile mapping system to capture the 3D models in critical traffic intersections for transpor
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Unmanned Airborne Vehicle- based 4D Remote Sensing for Mapping Rain Forest Biodiversity and Its Change in Brazil (UAV_4D_Bio)
The objective in this investigation is to develop biodiversity change mapping technologies.
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Updating of maps
The Finnish Geodetic Institute aims at developing automatic methods to be used in the updating process.
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Urban morphology and atmospheric boundary layer modelling (CityClim)
In this project, urban local weather, flux and air quality will be modeled and demonstrated in higher accuracy and resolution.
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Using the intensity information in laser scanning
A standard lidar survey produces a point cloud consisting of the topographic information (e.g., position in x,y,z) and the intensity (I).
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Vesihiisi
Mitigating carbon emissions from cultivated peat soils by innovative water management
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Web Sites for Remote Sensing
A portal for remote sensing companies.
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