Christian Doppler Laboratories are platforms for scientific collaboration between private companies and universities funded by the Christian Doppler Research Association. The goals of our lab are carrying out application-oriented fundamental research in laser scanning and remote sensing and transfering expertise directly to our partner companies, which are mostly medium and small enterprises.

In the field of photogrammetry and remote sensing laser scanning has become a major technique for data capture and, subsequently, for 3D object classification and reconstruction. Research focuses on the correct geometrical and physical description of the acquired data, which, by the way, is a core problem of remote sensing in general. Mathematical models describing the geometric properties of the measurement system are required and physically based methods for retrieving object properties are investigated. Equally important is understanding what kind of information is needed by the applied disciplines in order to provide them with value-added geodata derived from laser scanning. Together with our partner companies, two application-oriented research modules have been defined:

Spatial Data for Hydrologic Applications (Module I)

Object Modelling for Cities, Buildings and Infrastructure (Module II)