Our interdisciplinary research team of geomorphologists and geoinformaticists has developed a novel approach for combining surface and subsurface geodata.
Exemplary case studies were carried out in the Dikti Mountains of East Crete, where karst landforms such as dolines and poljes were investigated through geophysics, terrestrial laser scanning and GIS. The outcomes provide first time integral insights into the structure of sinkholes. Geomophometric quantifications allow reconstructing the genesis and tracing the forming processes of karstic landforms in Crete. A complete overview of the methodology and the results has recently been published in the renowned international journal Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
The outcomes were also visualised in a video that rose the interest of GIM International – an online source for geoinformatics. The editors posted the new youtube channel of LiDAR point cloud flights on their main website.
Check out the video below. The youtube channel of LiDAR Research Group (Heidelberg University) can be accessed here.
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