Amsterdam, 20–22 October 2021 in Amsterdam, Geospatial World Forum
The Geospatial World Forum is one of THE geospatial events in the world enabling its community to meet, discuss and learn. A significant highlight throughout the years has been the Geospatial World Awards, where the best geospatial solutions from around the globe get honoured by an international jury.
At this years 13th edition an international jury had to select from over 100 nominees and we were selected as one of the winners! We were delighted to accept the award together with our customer Die Autobahn and our partner Cloud-Vermessungs + Planung GmbH for our joined project “Deep Learning for automatic creation of CAD models from highway point clouds’’.
The following video shows key takeaways from the project in 40 seconds.
In a plenary discussion at the Geospatial World Forum Dr Jochen Eid, head of the business division Planning and Construction at Die Autobahn explains in detail the meaning of the project for Die Autobahn and its implementation (starting at minute 17:15).
Die Autobahn states “The approach is very promising and will make the use of point clouds faster and more cost-effective in the future.”
What was the project all about?
The goal of the project was the automatic creation of CAD models from high-density LiDAR scans of Bavarian highways as the measurement and manual evaluation of highways via 3D point cloud scans are very complex, cost-intensive, and time-consuming activities and tie up resources.
You can also find out more information in our Use Case.
Outlook
By automating the manual generation of CAD models (e.g. the whole highway, including overpasses and other building structures) it will be possible to measure much larger road sections in a fraction of the time in the future while human error is minimized in the process. Costs will be reduced considerably, and the effort can be minimized.
The functionalities generated in this project will be implemented into the Pointly platform to become available on-demand for customers. Stay tuned!
