MOLISENS: MObile LIdar SENsor System to exploit the potential of small industrial lidar devices for geoscientific applications

Goelles, Thomas; Hammer, Tobias; Muckenhuber, Stefan; Schlager, Birgit; Abermann, Jakob; Bauer, Christian; Expósito Jiménez, Víctor J.; Schöner, Wolfgang; Schratter, Markus; Schrei, Benjamin; Senger, Kim

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-247-2022

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-247-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-247-2022

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Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

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MOLISENS: MObile LIdar SENsor System to exploit the potential of small industrial lidar devices for geoscientific applications

Thomas Goelles, Tobias Hammer, Stefan Muckenhuber, Birgit Schlager, Jakob Abermann, Christian Bauer, Víctor J. Expósito Jiménez, Wolfgang Schöner, Markus Schratter, Benjamin Schrei, and Kim Senger

Data sets

Pointcloud of Longyearbreen glacier surface and glacer cave T. Goelles, T. Hammer, S. Muckenhuber, and B. Schlager https://doi.org/10.3217/182j2-hdn17

Model code and software

pointcloudset virtual-vehicle https://github.com/virtual-vehicle/pointcloudset

LIO-SAM TixiaoShan https://github.com/TixiaoShan/LIO-SAM

Short summary

We propose a newly developed modular MObile LIdar SENsor System (MOLISENS) to enable new applications for small industrial light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors. MOLISENS supports both monitoring of dynamic processes and mobile mapping applications. The mobile mapping application of MOLISENS has been tested under various conditions, and results are shown from two surveys in the Lurgrotte cave system in Austria and a glacier cave in Longyearbreen on Svalbard.