#SilviLaser2025 is just around the corner and I can't wait! I will present our current work "Non-rigid registration of wind-affected TLS point clouds of trees using deep learning" Abstract: event.fourwaves.com/silvilaser20... @silvilaser2025.bsky.social #VirtuaLearn3D #HELIOS #DFG #3DGeo

📢 Join us virtually for the 3DForEcoTech Final Conference! 🗓️ July 2–4, 2025 🌲 Proximal sensing in forestry & ecology 🖥️ Open online – everyone welcome! 📄 Program: bit.ly/3TMTOfZ 📝 Register: forms.gle/HfR7rfstt7W6... 💬 Feel free to share and join us! #3DForEcoTech #Forestry #RemoteSensing #COSTAction

#3DGeo Sensor Practical 2025! This week, we had our annual two-day practical field course, which took us to Steinbruch Leferenz (Dossenheim) and a sparse pine forest (Sandhausen), where we did #GNSS surveying, #TerrestrialLaserScanning and #UAVPhotogrammetry! #FieldWork #3DGeoTeaching #Education

My home is my study site 😍. This is one of our new @3dgeohd.bsky.social research sites and outdoor labs located in my home region #Vorarlberg in #Austria. A perfect geographic site to develop the next generation of AI-based 3D/4D observation and monitoring technology. #Lünsersee #Schesaplana

Conference Recap! Last month was packed with conferences, and we loved every minute of it! Check out our latest blog post: giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/05/15/3... #3DGeo #AImon #BMBF #DFG #VirtuaLearn3D #HELIOS

📹 Impressions from this year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) #EGU25 @egu.eu

📢 Publication alert! Great synthesis of the #LOKI project, check it out! 📰 Kohns et al. (2025): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @bernhardhofle.bsky.social @kit.edu Funded by #BMBF

🧊 Linking small- and large-scale Digital Twins: A concept 📅 Poster | Thursday, 01 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST), Hall X5, X5.151 📰 Abstract: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-... ✍ Authors: Aiden Durrant, Me, @bernhardhofle.bsky.social, @hannahwe.bsky.social, @tabernig.bsky.social

I'm heading to Vienna for #EGU25 next week 😍 Don't wanna brag, but I finished my poster already two weeks ago 😁 I'm looking forward to meeting lots of great colleagues and hope some of you will stop by my poster! 🤗

📢 #3DGeo PhD student @tabernig.bsky.social will give an exciting presentation at the 6th #JISDM 2025 Meet him in Room Tulla next Tue at 14:20! 🔗 Session: Advanced point cloud analysis strategies for deformation analysis jisdm2025.gik.kit.edu/downloads/Ad... #VirtuaLearn3D #DFG #AIMon #BMBF #HELIOS

#3DGeo is heading to the #ISPRS Geospatial Week with two exciting oral presentations 🌎 Meet William and Jannik at #GSW25 next Thu and Fri! 1️⃣ Simulation-based assessment of wind effects in #laserscanning point clouds 2️⃣ Detection of bees in #LiDAR time series #VirtuaLearn3D #DFG #AIMon #BMBF

📢 #LiPheStream is now on #pytreedb! 🌳 Single tree point cloud time series data from FGI (NLS, Finland) 📰 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🌲From now on, you can search and download the trees in pytreedb via filters and the map view: ➡️ pytreedb.geog.uni-heidelberg.de @epfgi.bsky.social @fgi-nls.bsky.social

Super spannendes Event!

🎥 Mitschnitt unseres Workshops KI-Experimentierwerkstätten im Blended Learning zu Klimaphysik und Nachhaltigkeit. Praxiseinblicke und Transferpotentiale beim Hochschulnetzwerk Digitalisierung der Lehre Baden-Württemberg: www.hnd-bw.de/projekte/wb-... @3dgeohd.bsky.social @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social

📢 Boulderhaus Heidelberg in #3D [UPDATE] 🧗‍♂️The Wall of Fame at Boulderhaus Heidelberg is now on #sketchfab! Explore it as a #3DMesh and 3D #PointCloud here: 👉 sketchfab.com/3dgeo-heidel...

📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOo... 🙏 We are grateful to the Boulderhaus Heidelberg for opening their doors to us to capture data and promote our research and education: www.boulderhaus.net/heidelberg/ ➡️ Hardware & Software used: RIEGL LMS GmbH: www.riegl.com

🧗 Boulderhaus Heidelberg in #3D – 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOo... 3D Geography 🤝 Bouldering 💡This #DigitalTwin project is embedded in one of our #3DGeo courses 🎓 #3DGeoTeaching @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @bernhardhofle.bsky.social #Laserscanning #PointCloud #Education #Science #3DModel

Here is a grape seed sized nugget of a weevil for #WeevilWednesday. This tiny friend was found on the underside of a large banana leaf. #inverts (Subfamily Conoderinae) Tatama National Park Colombia

Amazing pictures taken last week in the ice cave below the front of #Morteratsch Glacier by glaciologist Lander Van Tricht (@vaw-glaciology.bsky.social) 🤩 Huge retreat of this glacier over the last years has led to formation and expansion of this cave 📈❄️ Beware, it could collapse at any moment! 🚫

🚀 FOR-species20K is out in Methods in Ecology & Evolution! 🥳 20K trees, 33 species—the largest dataset for tree species classification from TLS/MLS/ULS! 🌲🌳🎄 #OpenScience 📰 paper: tinyurl.com/2w3nm86d 💾 data: zenodo.org/records/1325... 💻 code: tinyurl.com/42r8ea7p 🎯 benchmark: tinyurl.com/2zrfpzhr

☀️ #FieldworkFriday Three student field trips to Morocco (2018, 2020, 2022) provided the opportunity to conduct terrestrial laser scanning for change analysis. Over 4–5 days each time, we captured the full area with 31 (2018), 38 (2020), and 41 (2022) scan positions. 🧵 (1/3)

New bugfix release of HELIOS++ 🐛 v2.0.2 ➡️ anaconda.org/conda-forge/... Update with: mamba update -c conda-forge helios Install with: mamba install -c conda-forge helios 💻 Code: github.com/3dgeo-heidel... 🌐 Website: www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/helios.h... #HELIOS #3DGeo #DFG #sustainableHELIOS

🌳 In one of Heidelberg's Arboretums, you can find majestic giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum). In 2021, we scanned these trees with students, and the resulting 3D point clouds are now available in our database, #pytreedb ➡️ Tutorial: youtu.be/8SBi5mwDUVU?... #3DGeo

Als Team aus Lehrenden & Lernenden tragen wir am 14.02. einen Workshop in der Weiterbildungsreihe zu #KI in der #Hochschullehre beim Hochschulnetzwerk Digitalisierung der Lehre Baden-Württemberg (HND-BW) aus 🤖 👩‍💻 https://buff.ly/408zys5 @nicoleaeschbach.bsky.social @werneraeschbach.bsky.social

Großartige Neuigkeiten für die zukünftigen Studierenden der #Geographie Heidelberg! 🎓⛰️💻🌍 🔜 Transformative Umweltforschung (TrafU) 📢 www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @nicoleaeschbach.bsky.social

The #3DGeo Group is feeling tree-mendously festive! 🎄 Are you ready to branch out and celebrate Christmas? 💫

We proudly present: 🎁 Our Christmas release of HELIOS++, Version 2.0.0 🎄 https://buff.ly/3ZucbJ8 #opensource #opensourcesoftware #3DGeo #VLS #LiDARSimulation #DFG What's new? #HELIOS++ is now on @conda-forge.org and can be installed with 💻 conda install -c conda-forge helios (1/5)

Visit from the Institute of Photogrammetry and Geoinformation (IPI) Hannover Yesterday, we had an afternoon of great scientific exchange between our guests from #IPI and the #3DGeo group, the Scientific Software Center #SCC, @heigit.org, and #GIScienceHeidelberg 🤝

The #HELIOS++ user community is continuously growing. 🤝 🌐 www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/helios.h... Let's spotlight some outstanding contributions from our colleagues worldwide who use HELIOS++ for method development and for #DeepLearning. 🤩 #HELIOS #3DGeo #sustainableHELIOS #DFG A thread 🧵

My friend is totally enthusiastic about the course "Klimaphysik meets Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung"! I quote: ‘I didn't realise that such cool things were possible with Moodle’. 💪 @nicoleaeschbach.bsky.social @werneraeschbach.bsky.social

🚆 Conference Impressions 🌍 Daniel Czerwonka-Schröder (Hochschule Bochum), along with Ronald Tabernig ( #3DGeo ) and Yihui Yang (TUM), gave an update on the #BMBF project #AImon 5.0 at this year's #DigitalGreenTech conference in #Berlin. 🌱 💻 🌐 aimon-project.de 🔗 www.uni-heidelberg.de/aimon

📊 #GeographyAwarenessWeek: Mach dich fit für die Klimadatenanalyse! 📊 (DE) 📅 Wann? Freitag, 15.11., 11–12 Uhr 👩‍🏫 Wer? Dr. Nicole Aeschbach, #3DGeo (Uni HD) & @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social 💻 Wo? Online via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8602853198... Bild: DALL·E @nicoleaeschbach.bsky.social

📚 #3DGeo #teaching 🎓 [continued] 4️⃣ #Forests in Crisis (DE, exercise) 5️⃣ 3DGeo #research seminar (EN, seminar) #3dgeoteaching

📚 #3DGeo #teaching 🎓 Let us introduce you to our #courses (winter term 24/25) 1️⃣ Geodata acquisition (DE, lecture + exercise) 2️⃣ #LiDAR in #Geography (EN, lec. + ex.) 3️⃣ #DigitalTwins for the analysis of natural hazards (DE, ex.) #3dgeoteaching [continued below]

#FieldworkFriday Yesterday, we took our Phantom 4 #UAV and our new RIEGL laser scanner into the forest. 🌲🌳

Super exciting research project of our institute, together with partners from University of Innsbruck and from the Austrian Academy of Sciences uni-heidelberg.de/ahk-4d Not sure what's the best part, the #fieldwork, the #pointclouds or the #changeanalysis methods 🤩

Really cool opportunity yesterday! 😎 As we are both in the early stages of our PhDs, preparing the presentation, answering questions and receiving feedback was a great help. We also got a lot of inspiration from the other participants and loved the opportunity to exchange with them. 🤝🙌

📽️ #AImon 5.0 was featured in a German TV interview (SWR) Prof. Daniel Czerwonka-Schröder (project coordinator) explains how geographers & geodesists help with the current challenges of #climatechange by developing innovative solutions for risk monitoring 🌍 www.swrfernsehen.de/landesschau-...

Now the published final version of our brand new article "Integrating multi-user digitising actions for mapping gully outlines using a combined approach of Kalman filtering and machine learning" can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.op...

📰 Cool study on mapping gully outlines in Namibia using volunteered geographic information (VGI), Kalman filtering to find a smoothed solution and machine learning to identify the key predictors for digitising quality ❕ Important contribution to soil erosion monitoring in inaccessible areas

Amazing summer school! I am still grateful that I was able to take part in 2022 😊 I learned a lot, met great people and enjoyed the mountains! ⛰️🤩 10/10 would recommend!

✨Our new preprint comes with open data doi.org/10.11588/dat... 🌳Manually labeled terrestrial laser scanning point clouds of individual #trees for leaf-wood separation🌲 #3DGeo #syssifoss #VirtuaLearn3D Download from heiDATA or right from pytreedb.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/query/eyJiYW...

📢Preprint Alert!📰 "Deep learning with simulated laser scanning data for 3D point cloud classification" doi.org/10.31223/X53... While waiting for reviews, we have published our latest research as a preprint #3DGeo #HELIOS++ #VirtuaLearn3D giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2024/01/17/v...

📣📰 Paper alert: Classifying types of gully changes with unoccupied aircraft vehicles 3D multitemporal point clouds for training of satellite data analysis in Northwest Namibia By our former #3DGeo PhD student and #gully expert Miguel Orti: doi.org/10.1002/esp....

📢📰 Paper Alert: Giving gully detection a HAND 🤝 sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Olivier et al. have developed a new, scalable, semi-automated workflow for gully mapping from DEMs - with contributions from our former 3DGeo PhD student and gully expert Miguel Orti

E-TRAINEE is a comprehensive research-oriented open e-learning course on time series analysis in remote sensing for environmental monitoring ⬇️ ➡️ Paper: isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLV... ➡️ GitHub course repository: github.com/3dgeo-heidel...