Tag: Speleothem
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Low-cost 3D sensing of natural objects in the Dechen Cave
In one of Germany’s most visited show caves, the Dechen Cave near Iserlohn, different objects were captured with the GIScience‘s high-end terrestrial laser scanner Riegl VZ-400 and the low-cost structured light camera Microsoft Kinect™ by Johannes Fuchs, Bernhard Höfle, Martin Hämmerle (LiDAR Research Group) and Andrea Schröder-Ritzrau (Institute of Environmental Physics). Morphometric features that are…
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LiDAR Research Group investigates one of the most impressing caves in Germany
Researchers of the GIScience research group of the Institute of Geography, the Institute of Environmental Physics of the University of Heidelberg and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities acquired a highly accurate 3D topographic point cloud of the Dechenhöhle, which is attached to the Speleology Museum Dechenhöhle Caves. Terrestrial laser scanning and low-cost sensing…