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The Department of Forest Management at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences belongs to the leader research institutions in the topic of utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) together with photogrammetry methods in forestry for purposes of forest inventory and monitoring. The research group has experiences with photogrammetric data acquisition as well as data processing, creating ortophoto maps and 3D point clouds. Recently in ongoing projects the members are developing methodologies for optimizing flight parameters in relation to camera positions and angles in order to ensure maximal quality of the products, and also algorithms for interpretation of the photogrammetry products, like 3D point clouds and ortophoto maps.<\/p>\n
The Photogrammetry group of the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation at Technical University Vienna has expertise in modeling the measurement process for airborne laser scanning and image matching. This allows calibration and orientation of the sensor data and derivation of primary models with accuracy at the nominal sensor accuracy. These primary models are point clouds and topographic surfaces. The expertise reaches, however, further to automated interpretation of the scenes, especially in the fields of forestry (forest border, biomass), but also in the fields of water and geomorphology. The research group Photogrammetry seeks close cooperation with scientific partners from neighboring disciplines (geomorphology, forestry, ecology) in order to enable comprehensive exploitation of Earth observation technology for relevant questions in society.<\/p>\n
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