Best workshop presentation award at the Geospatial Week 2023 in Cairo, Egypt

At the Geospatial Week, an international conference organised by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), the paper by Mona Goebel and Prof. Dorota Iwaszczuk won the award for the best workshop presentation with the paper: Backpack System for Capturing 3D Point Clouds of Forests. The workshop, entitled Robotics for Mapping – SLAM approaches for mobile mapping and robot intelligence, explores SLAM approaches for mobile mapping and robot intelligence, focusing on mapping and localisation problems. Both authors are members of the Remote Sensing and Image Analysis group at the Institute of Geodesy, FB13.

The study presents the prototype mobile mapping backpack system for collecting 3D point clouds of forest vegetation. It is part of the DeepForest project . The system, which includes LiDAR and IMU with Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM), is designed to be carried through forest environments. The hardware and software setup were presented as well as benefits and drawbacks of the backpack versus terrestrial laser scanning.

Another paper, titled Evaluation of Intel RealSense D455 Camera Depth Estimation for Indoor SLAM Applications, was presented in Cairo by Dr Patrick Hübner and written by him, Jiwei Hou and Prof. Dr Dorota Iwaszczuk. This study proposes an evaluation methodology for assessing depth cameras for indoor mapping applications. It evaluates the Intel Realsense D455 RGBD sensor based on measurement accuracy and noise, focusing on measurement distance and inclination of surfaces.