[HTML][HTML] Digital twin of a city: Review of technology serving city needs

VV Lehtola, M Koeva, SO Elberink, P Raposo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Digital twins (DTs) have been found useful in manufacturing, construction, and maintenance.
Adapting DTs to serve cities, the question arises of what an urban digital twin should contain …

Voxelisation algorithms and data structures: a review

M Aleksandrov, S Zlatanova, DJ Heslop - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Voxel-based data structures, algorithms, frameworks, and interfaces have been used in
computer graphics and many other applications for decades. There is a general necessity to …

Automatic voxel-based 3D indoor reconstruction and room partitioning from triangle meshes

P Hübner, M Weinmann, S Wursthorn, S Hinz - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the gaining popularity and proliferation of building information modeling (BIM)
techniques, a growing demand emerges for accurate, up-to-date and semantically-enriched …

Spaces in spatial science and urban applications—state of the art review

S Zlatanova, J Yan, Y Wang, A Diakité… - … international journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In spatial science and urban applications,“space" is presented by multiple disciplines as a
notion referencing our living environment. Space is used as a general term to help …

[HTML][HTML] Applications for Semantic 3D Streetspace Models and Their Requirements—A Review and Look at the Road Ahead

C Beil, TH Kolbe - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2024 - mdpi.com
In addition to geometric accuracy, topological information, appearance and georeferenced
data, semantic capabilities are key strengths of digital 3D city models. This provides the …

[HTML][HTML] A scale-elastic discrete grid structure for voxel-based modeling and management of 3D data

Y Lei, X Tong, T Qu, C Qiu, D Wang, Y Sun… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) discrete grid systems have been widely applied to voxel-
based modeling and the management of 3D data. In the existing rigid grid structure (RGS) …

[HTML][HTML] Occlusion detection of traffic signs by voxel-based ray tracing using highly detailed models and MLS point clouds of vegetation

PR Hirt, J Holtkamp, L Hoegner, Y Xu, U Stilla - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Visibility analysis plays a vital role in the design and placing of traffic signs in the urban
street environment. This work investigates the occlusion detection of traffic lights and traffic …

Topographical landmarks for ground-level terrain relative navigation on Mars

J Vander Hook, R Schwartz, K Ebadi… - 2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many of the tasks planned for future generation Mars rovers rely heavily on having accurate
knowledge of the rover's location in a Martian body-fixed coordinate system. Current …

Reaching beyond GIS for comprehensive 3D visibility analysis

R Wróżyński, K Pyszny, M Wróżyńska - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2024 - Elsevier
Visibility analyses are one of the fundamental geospatial processing tasks applied in various
fields. Recent technological advancements have accelerated viewshed calculations and …

LiDAR-based method for analysing landmark visibility to pedestrians in cities: case study in Kraków, Poland

K Pyka, R Piskorski, A Jasińska - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We propose a method for analysing landmark visibility from a pedestrian's perspective. A
case study is performed in Kraków, a city with many architectural monuments, where …